Slavery in America
By 1850, over this many African Americans were enslaved in the United States.
What is 3 million?
This escaped enslaved woman personally led dozens of people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This escaped enslaved man became a famous orator, writer, and abolitionist leader.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Proposed by Henry Clay, this compromise admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty to decide slavery in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
The Southern economy relied heavily on slave labor for these three major crops.
What are cotton, tobacco, and rice?
Known as the “President of the Underground Railroad,” this Quaker helped thousands escape.
Who is Levi Coffin?
This escaped enslaved woman became a speaker for both abolition and women’s rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This law, part of the Compromise of 1850, banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What is the slave trade ban?
This senator from Illinois, nicknamed the “Little Giant,” proposed the Kansas–Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Unlike the South, the Northern states were becoming more industrial and less reliant on this.
What is slavery?
This African American abolitionist recorded escape stories, preserving the history of the Railroad.
Who is William Still?
He published The Liberator, one of the most influential anti-slavery newspapers.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This novel, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe in 1852, depicted the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This radical abolitionist led a raid at Pottawatomie Creek, killing pro-slavery settlers.
Who is John Brown?
This divide—moral, political, and economic—deepened tensions between the North and South.
What is sectionalism?
The Railroad became a powerful symbol of this, inspiring Northern activism.
What is resistance?
Abolitionist societies organized these three strategies to spread their anti-slavery messages.
What are rallies, publications, and political pressure?
The Fugitive Slave Act denied runaways this right in court.
What is a jury trial (or testimony rights)?
Violent clashes between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers gave Kansas this bloody nickname.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
This law, passed in 1850, required citizens to assist in capturing runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Escaping slavery was dangerous due to these two threats (name both).
What are bounty hunters and the Fugitive Slave Act?
Southerners viewed abolitionism as a threat to this.
What is their way of life?
The Compromise of 1850 only temporarily delayed this, which worsened long-term divisions.
What is secession?
The failure of popular sovereignty in Kansas helped give rise to this new political party.
What is the Republican Party?