Slavery
The South
What were the laws that controlled the lives of slaves called?
Slave codes
True or False: Abraham Lincoln was an abolitionist
False: He was a gradualist
True or False: John Brown terrified the North, leading them to believe they were no longer safe in the Union.
False: The South was terrified by John Brown
True or False: Abraham Lincoln lost to Stephen Douglas in the 1858 Senate election in Illinois.
True: Although he lost, he gained massive popularity across the North.
What invention made slave more profitable and changed the course of American history?
The cotton gin
What law split the country in two: half-free and half-slave states?
Missouri Compromise
Who wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Stephen Douglas
Because of John Brown, Southerners began viewing all Republicans and abolitionists as what?
Terrorists
What part of the country supported the Republican party?
The North
What is a plantation?
A large farm growing cash-crops and usually uses slave labor
Which law repealed the Missouri Compromise?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who competed against Stephen Douglas in a series of debates about slavery?
Abraham Lincoln
Fill in the blank: John Brown killed five pro-slavery settlers in the Pottawattomie ___________.
Massacre
What is a gradualist?
Someone who wants to end slavery, but slowly over time.
What was the name of a person who owned a slave plantation?
A planter
What political party formed in anger over the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Republican Party
Who led the largest slave revolt in American history, terrifying the South?
Nat Turner
What was John Brown's goal during his raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
To start a slave revolt/revolution
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to end slavery immediately, often through violent methods.
What were the four types of slave resistance we discussed in class?
1. Daily resistance 2. Escape 3. Rebellion 4. Slave Narratives
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to a mini civil-war called what?
Bleeding Kansas
Who was the famous black abolitionist who was friends with John Brown and wrote a famous slave narrative.
Frederick Douglass
What was the "John Brown Way" of ending slavery?
Responding to violence with violence - making slaveholders afraid
What was the most important outcome of the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
Lincoln became a national celebrity