Nicknames
What's another name for the United States of America?
Union
Who was denied their freedom by Chief Justice Roger Taney?
Dred Scott
Who am I?
I was an escaped slave who returned 19 times to lead others to freedom?
Harriet Tubman
What is a fugitive?
A fugitive is someone that is running away from something.
What is a state that allowed slavery?
What was the Underground Railroad?
a. a place underground that brought slaves to their new homes in the south
b. a series of escape routes and hiding places that helped bring slaves out of the south
c. a place where slaves went to get married
B - a series of escape routes and hiding places that helped bring slaves out of the south
I wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which described the life of a slave
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What was "popular sovereignty?"
People were given the right to make political decisions for themselves.
What is a another name for the Confederate States of America?
The Confederacy
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
This law required runaway slaves to be returned to their slave owners.
I was born into slavery. I spoke in favor of women's rights and abolition.
Sojourner Truth
What was another name for the United States?
The Union
What is a state that did not allow slavery?
A free state
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This law gave popular sovereignty to the Kansas-Nebraska territories.
These people were raised on a plantation and moved to the North and spoke out against slavery.
We are the Grimke sisters!
Give me 2 characteristics of Abraham Lincoln during the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Abraham Lincoln:
was against slavery, believing that slavery was "morally, socially, and a political evil"
Did not argue for abolition, but he also did not want slavery to spread into the other territories
According to Abraham Lincoln, who was responsible for starting the Civil War?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Congress allowed settlers to make political decisions for themselves in some territories.
What was the name of southern soldiers who were from the South?
The Confederacy
Why were many southerners unhappy when Abraham Lincoln was elected President?
Southerners were outraged because Lincoln was against slavery.