Abolistionist
Vocabulary
Slavery
Underground Railroad
North vs. South
100
I am an abolitionist who escaped slavery.
Who are Sojourner Truth or Frederick Douglass?
100
Another name for the United States.
What is the Union?
100
From what continent did the slaves come?
What is Africa?
100
Runaway slaves walked at ____________.
What is night?
100
Define the Fugitive Slave Law.
What is a law that stated runaway slaves who had escaped to the North had to be returned to slavery?
200
Name 2 abolitionists who were daughters of slave owners.
Who are Sarah and Angelina Grimke?
200
Loyalty to one part of the country.
What is sectionalism?
200
A former slave who sued for his freedom and lost.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
Name the person who guided runaways from station to station.
What is a conductor?
200
There were made to keep a balance in Congress.
What are compromises?
300
I wrote The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
300
Person who is running away.
What is fugitive?
300
ESSAY: Describe how Congress felt about slavery.
What is they were not against or for it, tried to settle disagreements between states, and made several compromises to maintain balance?
300
I made over 19 trips and rescued over 300 people from slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
North and South argued over____, _____, and ____.
What are slavery, tariffs, and state's rights?
400
Name the groups of people who were abolitionists.
Who are whites, free blacks both men and women?
400
A war between two groups within a nation.
What is civil war?
400
_______________ said slavery was morally and socially wrong.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Runaway slaves were heading to
What is Canada, Florida, Mexico, or the Carribean?
400
Explain why the North found tariffs to be good.
What is they made imported goods more expensive than local goods?
500
Name some things abolitionists did to try to end slavery.
What are printed anti-slavery newspapers and spoke out against slavery, gave money, helped on the Underground Railroad?
500
Define state's rights.
What is the idea that states not the federal gov't. should make the final decision about matters that affect them?
500
Slavery was so important to the South because
What is the southern farmers wanted enslaved people to produce cotton?
500
Their money supported the Underground Railroad.
What is the free blacks?
500
ESSAY: Explain the South's feelings about the Election of 1860.
When Abraham Lincoln was elected it was a disaster, they felt the federal gov't. was too powerful and feared it would grow stronger.