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Slavery and African Americans
Abolitionism
Laws about Slavery
Lead up to the Civil War
Miscellaneous
100
The Underground Railroad consisted of what?
an informal network of homes where slaves could hide on their escape to freedom.
100
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
100
According to the principle of popular sovereignty, the question of slavery in the territories would be determined by who?
the people in any given territory.
100
Why did Abraham Lincoln oppose the Crittenden Compromise?
he had been elected on a platform that opposed the extension of slavery.
100
What types of people went west during the Gold Rush?
Mostly lawless men and women
200
The Fugitive Slave Law of 1850 included what provisions?
denial of a jury trial to runaway slaves, denial of fleeing slaves' right to testify on their own behalf, the penalty of imprisonment for northerners who helped slaves to escape, a higher payment if officials determined blacks to be runaways.
200
In 1848, the Free Soil party platform advocated what?
support of the Wilmot Proviso, federal aid for internal improvements, free government homesteads for settlers, opposition to slavery in the territories.
200
The Wilmot Proviso, introduced into Congress during the Mexican War, declared what?
slavery would be banned from all territories that Mexico ceded to the United States.
200
In his raid on Harpers Ferry, John Brown intended to do what?
call upon the slaves to rise and establish a black free state.
200
In the 1840s, the view that God had ordained the growth of an American nation stretching across North America was called what?
Manifest Destiny
300
Describe life for Free blacks before the Civil War.
They were far more numerous in the North than in the South, were often the mulatto offspring of white fathers and black mothers, were often forbidden basic civil rights, were disliked in the North as well as the South.
300
Northern attitudes toward free blacks can best be described as what?
disliking the individuals but liking the race.
300
The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas do what?
outlaw slavery but protect those in the state who already own slaves
300
The proposed Crittenden Compromise, if adopted, would have done what?
prohibited slavery north of 36'' 30', guaranteed federal protection of slavery in territories south of 36'' 30', permitted the expansion of slavery into new territories south of 36'' 30'.
300
Who was the man who opened Japan to the West?
Matthew Perry
400
What was the purpose of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin?
It intended to show the cruelty of slavery.
400
Harriet Tubman gained fame for what?
by helping slaves to escape to Canada.
400
In the Dred Scott case, the U.S. Supreme Court made what decisions?
it ruled that Dred Scott was a slave, not a citizen, and therefore could not sue in federal court, it said that because slaves were private property, they could be taken into free or slave territories, it declared that the Constitution protected slave owners' rights to property no matter where they resided, it stated that Scott should be returned to slavery.
400
What did Stephan A Douglas argue in his Freeport Doctrine?
slavery would stay down if the people voted it down no matter what the Supreme Court said.
400
In 1856, the breaking point over slavery in Kansas came with what event?
an attack on Lawrence by a gang of proslavery raiders.
500
Harriet Tubman gained fame for what?
by helping slaves to escape to Canada.
500
Who was known for being both an abolitionist and a suffragette?
Soujourner Truth
500
After the new Fugitive Slave Act, where did slaves begin escaping to?
Canada
500
Confederate batteries fired on Fort Sumter when it was learned that...
Lincoln had ordered supplies sent to the fort.
500
Nativists in the 1850s were known for what?
anti-Catholic and antiforeign attitudes.