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Abolitionist Movement
Territorial Expansion
Personalities
Early stages of the war
The War
100
Founded in Philadelphia in 1838, headquarters moved to New York.
What is American Anti Slavery Society?
100
The legal right to hold a vote over the issue of whether a territory should allow slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
After a series of debates, he lost the Illinois senate race in 1858.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
100
The taking of territory by force.
What is annexation?
100
Irish immigrant protest.
What is the New York Draft Riots of 1863?
200
William Lloyd Garrison's newspaper.
What is the Liberator?
200
God Given right to control of the North American continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
200
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
Legal protection of private property. Used by slaveholders to argue against abolition.
What is the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
200
Compromise with the border states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Destination of escaped slaves after Fugitive Slave Act was enacted.
What is Canada West?
300
Traveled West in search of gold.
Who were the 49er's?
300
Wrote novel depicting harsh realities of slavery that was one of America's first national best-sellers.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
Political party of the 1850's that joined with the Republicans in the 1860 election.
What is the Liberty Party?
300
Confiscated property from the enemy.
What is contraband?
400
His story of escape and redemption electrified the abolitionist movement, propelling him to the top leadership.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
War for control of the newest territory during the 1850's.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
400
American terrorist or freedom fighter, you decide. *For Double Jeopardy: Give a reasoned answer.
Who is John Brown?
400
The separation of the southern states from the Union after Lincoln's election.
What is secession?
400
Most famous Black Regiment of the War. Double jeopardy: Explain why.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
500
Born a free person of color in New Jersey, he met his own long lost half brother while working on the Underground Railroad.
Who was William Still?
500
California was added to the Union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
Led over three-hundred people to safety on the Underground Railroad. Acted as a Union spy during the war.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
500
Organized Black regiments for the Union Army.
What is the Black Committee?
500
Another word for the draft. The Confederates began to bring blacks into the army at the end of the war.
What is conscription?