In what month and year did the Confederacy surrender?
April 1865
100
Joseph Cinque, along with 53 Africans, led a revolt on this ship in 1840.
Amistad
100
The ___ amendment formally abolished slavery in 1865.
13th amendment
100
This wealthy New York abolitionist supported John Brown and became the only abolitionist ever to win election to Congress
Gerrit Smith
100
This free black man from Auburn, New York was kidnapped and sold into slavery in Louisiana. He later wrote about his story in the book entitled "Twelve Years a Slave."
Solomon Northrup
200
President Lincoln greeted her as "the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war." She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
200
In 1854, Congress stipulated that before these two territories BECAME states, the legal status of slavery would be determined through territory-wide voting.
Kansas and Nebraska
200
What month and year did Congress ban the International Slave Trade, whereby slaves could no longer be legally imported from Africa.
January 1, 1808
200
The pastor of Plymouth Church in Brooklyn, NY turned his church into the "Grand Central Depot" of the Underground Railroad.
Henry Ward Beecher
200
This slave had visions and blacks in Southampton, Virginia called him "The Prophet." In February 1831, he recruited seven slaves and led a rebellion in the Virginia countryside killing 55 men, women and children.
Nat Turner
300
In 1861, how many southern states seceded and formed their own country, the Confederate States of America?
11 states
300
____ was the 1st known black bookseller and started the first black run magazine, Mirror of Liberty, in 1838.
David Ruggles
300
Name three Northern states that "officially" abolished slavery in the 1700's.
Vermont, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
300
The American Colonization Society (ACS) was formed to help free blacks and resettle them in Africa. It established a colony in 1822 which became Liberia in 1847. Robert Finley, Bushrod Washington and ____, the author of the Star Spangled Banner were the founding members of the ACS.
Francis Scott Key
300
You'll be free or die," declared this slave who later served the Union Army as a nurse, a scout, and a spy. She was buried in Auburn, NY with military honors.
Harriet Tubman
400
On January 1, 1864, Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation, but it did not free slaves in the five (5) border states.
Name three of the five border states.
Delaware Kentucky Maryland
W. Virginia Missouri
400
"Black man rejoice, White man won't come here, And if he does, The Devil will take him off."
This group of Africans resisted slavery and lived in "maroon societies" located in this state.
Florida
400
This Virginia slave was recaptured in 1854 under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. He was escorted by 2,000 troops to a U.S. gunboat. In 1855, abolitionists purchased his freedom for $1300.
Anthony Burns
400
These two brothers, both Calvinists, used their wealth to combat slavery. "Slavery is the worm at the root of the tree of Liberty."
Arthur and Lewis Tappan
400
"He told me that I was made for his use, made to obey his command in every thing; that I was nothing but a slave," wrote __________ in her 1861 book, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl.
Harriet Jacobs
500
"I will not equivocate - I will not excuse - I will not retreat a single inch - AND I WILL BE HEARD."
This devoted Christian and advocate of nonviolence who helped found the Anti-Slavery Society in 1833, published the last issue of The Liberator in December 1865.
William Lloyd Garrison
500
This legal case by the Supreme Court ruled that people of African descent could NEVER become citizens of the United States.
Dred Scott Decision
500
This former president defended and won the case for the Africans who revolted on the Amistad.
John Quincy Adams
500
This abolitionist was shot and killed in 1837 by an Illinois mob as he stood guard over his printing press. He was considered the first martyr abolitionist.
Reverend Elijah Lovejoy
500
"If I cannot go to heaven as black as God made me, let me go down to hell and dwell with the Devil forever."
_______ was born the son of enslaved parents in Maryland and became an agent for the American Anti-Slavery Society