Slavery in America
Compromise & Law
Abolition and Resistance
Key Events
People & Perspectives
100

What was the primary labor system used on Southern Plantations?

What is Slavery?

100

This 1820 compromise allowed Missouri in as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

100

Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859?

Who is John Brown?

100

What court case ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens?

Who is Dred Scott v. Sanford?

100

What term describes people who wanted to end slavery?

Who are abolitionists?

200

What invention caused an increase in demand for enslaved labor?

What is the Cotton Gin?

200

This 1850 law required citizens to return runaway slaves.

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

200

Who was a famous formerly enslaved abolitionist speaker and writer?

Who is Frederick Douglas?

200

What happened in “Bleeding Kansas”?

What is violence over whether Kansas would allow slavery?

200

Who is known as a hero and a martyr?

Who is John Brown?

300

What term describes the South’s dependence on agriculture and the North’s on industry?

What is Sectionalism?


300

What compromise introduced the idea of popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska?

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

What did abolitionists want to do about slavery?

What is end it completely?

300

Who debated against Abraham Lincoln?

Who is Stephen Douglas?

300

Who is known for her advocacy for the mentally ill and her work in reforming mental asylums improving living conditions and treatment of individuals?

Who is Dorothea Dix?

400

What is the name of the escape system that helped enslaved people flee to the North?

What is the Underground Railroad?

400

What law repealed the Missouri Compromise?

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

400

Who was a powerful abolitionist and women's rights activist in the 19th century that advocated for the end of slavery and for equal rights for women?

Who is Sojourner Truth?

400

Name 3 events that increased tensions before the Civil War.

I would accept any 3 such as- Fugitive Slave Act, Kansas-Nebraska Act, John Brown's Raid, Dred Scott Decision, Lincoln's Election?

400

Who is known as the "Father of the Common School Movement"?

Who is Horace Mann?

500

What year did the Nat Turner Rebellion occur?

What is 1831?

500

Who was the President that signed the Fugitive Slave Act?

Who is President Fillmore?

500

Name two different ways enslaved people resisted slavery.

What are running away or revolting?

500

What was known as "King"

What is Cotton?

500

Who was more dependent on slavery, the North or the South?

Who is the South?