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100
Along with Sojourner Truth, this woman helped fugitive slaves escape slave states through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100

This half of the country was predominately rocky. While id did grow some crops, it focused on manufacturing.

What is the North?

100
These bills were composed by Henry Clay in 1820. They allowed for the admission of Missouri as a slave state while also admitting Maine as a free state. Slavery would not be allowed above the 36 30' line, with the exception of Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
In 1831, led by Nathaniel Turner, this uprising resulted in the deaths of over 50 european americans and the retaliatory killings of hundreds of slaves.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
100

This term was used to describe someone opposed to slavery.

What is an abolitionist?

200
In 1793, this person invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
200

This was the name of a large farm where cash crops were managed largely by slaves.

What is a plantation?

200
Drafted by Henry Clay, this series of laws was a method of averting a national crisis due to the conflicting beliefs of the Southerners and other states. These laws would admit California as a free state, divide the Mexican cession in the New Mexico and Utah Territories, ban the slave trade in Washington D.C., enact a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, and give Texas monetary compensation for its willingness to forget about its claims to part of New Mexico's Territory.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Led by John Brown at a federal arsenal in Virginia, a raid was staged. Brown claimed he was given orders by God, wanted to arm slaves in the surrounding plantations to overthrow the whites and create a free black state.
What is Harper's Ferry?
200

This was a complex network that assisted fugitive slaves fleeing the United States or at least to reach free states.

What is the Underground Railroad?

300

He was a blood-crazed abolitionist who hacked apart pro-slavery protesters with a freaking sword.

Who is John Brown?

300

The South mostly grew this cash crop before it began growing cotton.

What is tobacco?

300
This would theoretically open the Nebraska Territory to slavery. Passing this act would cause the repeal of the Missouri Compromise. It was signed into law in 1854.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
300

Abolitionists were harassed. One who owned a printing press and printed anti-slavery propaganda was murdered and his press thrown in a river.

What is the Lovejoy Murder?

300
This concept indicated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the citizens which resided in the given territory.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
Published "The North Star." This antislavery journal reported the ugliness of slavery for readers and argued that the Constitution could be used to fight against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400

You need these three things in order to achieve Mass Production

What is interchangeable parts, division of labor, and machine tools?

400

This outlawed slavery in any new territory.

What is the Northwest Ordinance?

400
An 1819 Supreme Court ruling that upheld the constitutionality of the Bank of the United States
What is McCulloch v. Maryland?
400
In some antebellum states, these codes were incorporated into the laws regulating enslaved Americans, known as the Slave Codes. These laws aimed at oppressing enslaved Africans, discouraging free blacks from living in the South, and preventing slave revolts.
What are the Black Codes?
500
In 1852, she wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin." This novel became widely famous in the North and scorned in the South.
Who is Harriet Beacher Stowe?
500

Based on the Declaration of Independence, this was written by women's rights groups to state their position.

What is the Declaration of Sentiments?

500

Not willing to allow Africans to count as an equal to Whites, but still wanting to increase their representation in government, racists lawmakers decided to count slaves as THIS.

What is 3/5 of a citizen?

500
In 1857, it was ruled that the 36 30' provision of the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional and that all African Americans were not citizens, therefore making them ineligibile to sue in federal court. It was also said that an individual's property could not be denied him under the U.S. Constitution. The Missouri Compromise was therefore unconstitutional.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
Comprised of South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, and Texas. This "new country" was a result of seceding from the Union after the election of Abraham Lincoln. Jefferson Davis was named its president.
What are the Confederate States of America?