Biographies
Who fought for both black civil rights and women's rights in the 19th century, after having been born a slave herself?
Sojourner Truth
Many pro-slavery and anti-slavery Americans moved to this territory to try to make the government in this territory become either pro or anti slavery
Kansas
to allow or permit something, means....?
Sanction
Why was the Underground Railroad so successful ?
It was able to give freedom for thousands of slaves who were able to leave the South and enter northward.
What was the Church's teaching on slavery in the 1800s?
It was a material evil, but something that was not freely chosen by people and was not a moral evil. It was an evil like a disease or deficiency with creation/life.
This former slave brought many out of slavery from the South and into freedom in the North
Harriett Tubman
This state was home to the pro-slavery expansion politician Stephen Douglas and the anti-slavery expansion politician Abraham Lincoln
Illinois
to provoke or to start something, especially violence, means...?
Incitement
an election that is held between a president's term in office is called a....?
Mid-term election
A veteran of the Mexican American War, a senator from Mississippi, this man was also the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War, who was he...?
Jefferson Davis
Who was the first African American to be made a priest and is now a candidate for sainthood?
Venerable Augustus Tolton
This was the site of a slave rebellion led by John Brown, a radical anti-slavery activist
the place where an engine is stored, means...?
engine house
Who was the author of the newspaper "The Liberator", and what was its impact?
William Lloyd Garrison. It became a popular anti-slavery or 'abolition' newspaper among the North.
Which two territories were formed from the "Bleeding Kansas" territory?
Kansas and Nebraska
Though born a slave, this man argued for his freedom once he reached 'free territory'
Dred Scott
This was the term used to describe whether a territory would have slavery or not have slavery, depending on the point of view of the people in that territory
Popular Sovereignty
Congregation for the Index
the author of the Supreme Court opinion "Dred Scott v. Sanford" which made slavery legal even in territories that were free was this Supreme Court Chief Justice...?
Roger Taney
This mode of transportation helped to connect the east and midwest with the Pacific coast?
Transcontinental Railroad
This woman wrote a novel about the cruelty of slavery, and was called 'the little lady who started the Civil War' by President Lincoln
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Nearly every state in this part of the U.S. opposed Abraham Lincoln for President in 1860?
something that is evil not because of a human choice but because of a natural condition (illness, weather, disaster), is called a...?
Material evil
Why was the 1860 presidential election so important for the U.S. ?
It sent the message that the South was threatened by the possible restriction of slavery by the new President, Republican Abe Lincoln, which led to nearly every Southern state seceding from the nation
Explain Abraham Lincoln's opinion of slavery in the 1850s, before becoming President.
Slavery was not a moral evil, but something that was dividing the nation and couldn't be expanded in the west.