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Southern Society
Important People
Literature
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So you think you're good
100
This invention revolutionized Southern plantations and revitalized slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
100
A former slave and strong advocate against slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that discusses the separation of African families at slave auctions.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
The largest organized slave revolt that slaughtered 60 Virginians (mostly women and children).
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
100
The Southern name for slavery.
What is peculiar institution?
200
The name given to the South that highlighted one of their primary crops.
What is the "Cotton Kingdom" or "Cotton is King"?
200
The author of "the Liberator" who burned the Constitution and spread radical ideas of abolitionism.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
200
Novel by Solomon Northup about a free black who was captured and forced into slavery.
What is 12 Years a Slave?
200
A ship that was seized by slaves, who then attempted to sail back to Africa.
What is Amistad?
200
The term for mixed children of a white plantation owner and a black mistress
What are mulattoes?
300
Most Southern farmers had fewer than ______ slaves?
What is ten?
300
He was known as the "President Without a Party".
Who is John Tyler?
300
A propaganda pamphlet by Theodore Dwight Weld that exposed the cruelty of slavery.
What is American Slavery As It Is?
300
The Aroostook War emerged over a dispute over which boundary?
What is the Northern Boundary of Maine?
300
The Wig extremist name for John Tyler.
What is his Accidency?
400
The most important subsistence crop in the South that fed the poor Southern farmers.
What is corn?
400
This president, who supported Manifest Destiny, wanted to acquire California, and settle the Oregon dispute.
Who is James K. Polk?
400
A book by David Walker that called for the emancipation of slaves and for an end to White Supremacy.
What is Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World?
400
Treaty that resolved the Mexican War and gave Texas, Oregon, and California to the United States.
What is Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
400
The people that would destroy the spirits of resilient slaves.
What are the Breakers?
500
Most slaves were concentrated in this specific area of the South.
What is the black belt?
500
United States explorer who mapped much of the American West and Northwest territory.
Who is John C. Fremont?
500
An autobiography written about the life of a slave who was born to a black slave mother and a white father.
What is the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass?
500
Non-violent clash between Britain and America in which British travel guides criticized the United States and aroused anger among Americans.
What is the War of Words?
500
Descendants of Spanish and Mexican conquerors who had once ruled the territory of California.
Who are the Californios?