The Expansion of Slavery
This crop helped fuel the expansion of slavery in the US during the 1800s.
What is cotton?
This term means to immediately destroy an institution or practice.
What is abolition?
This term describes the growing divide between Northern states and Southern states during the Antebellum Period.
Sectionalism
This side emerged victorious in the Civil War.
What is the Union?
The time period after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
A type of slavery in which enslaved people are treated as property.
What is chattel slavery?
This abolitionists escaped from slavery in the mid-1800s, wrote an autobiography, and published a newspaper called The North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This compromise allowed Missouri to become a slave state, while Maine became a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This document freed enslaved people within the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States (expect as punishment for a crim).
What is the textile industry?
This tactic used by abolitionists attempted to convince Americans that slavery was wrong.
What is moral suasion?
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of this compromise over the expansion of slavery into the Mexican Cession.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
After Southern states seceded from the United States, they formed this "independent" country.
What is the Confederacy?
These laws were passed in Southern states following the Civil War to discriminate against African Americans.
What are "Black Codes"?
This invention made it easier to produce large quantities of cotton, thus stimulating cotton production in the Antebellum Period.
What is the cotton gin?
This abolitionist and civil rights activist named herself after a traveler and truth-teller.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This Supreme Court case ruled that the federal government did not have the authority to prevent the expansion of slavery.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sandford?
The election of this person in 1860 precipitated Southern secession and the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln (R)?
This person succeeded Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States after Lincoln's assassination in 1865.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This law removed Native Americans from land in the Southern part of the United States, opening it up for the expansion of cotton production.
What is the Indian Removal Act of 1830?
This document is often considered the starting point of the Abolition Movement in Antebellum America.
What is David Walker's Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
This term was used to describe the process of allowing the people of a given territory to decide on the legality of slavery within that territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle is often considered by historians to be the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These protect individual citizens from discrimination.
What are civil rights?