This type of trade enabled raw goods to move around the world. Probably more of an isosceles variety...
What is Triangle Trade?
100
The most brutal of the slave revolts; this one seeing mostly women and children to their deaths. 100 slaves were murdered for this event.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
100
Banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchase north of 36-30... except in one future state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Her 18th century poetry and writing unearthed the notion that slaves with an education could provide powerful intelligence to American culture.
Who is Phyllis Wheatley?
100
The only religion that was openly abolitionist in the 17th century.
What are Quakers?
200
If you thought your country had a lot of slaves, try living in the nation where a majority of them were shipped.
What is Brazi?
200
His plan would have been larger than Nat Turner's rebellion, but this mulatto was hanged before his rebellion even took hold.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
200
"Shhhhh... we don't talk about slavery in Congress."
What are the Gag Resolutions?
200
Congressman Preston Brooks went to town on this man's head with an enriched, golden cane that is still in a Boston museum to this day.
Who is Charles Sumner?
200
This war ended in the death of Metacomet and British colonial occupation of Rhode Island.
What is King Phillip's War?
300
By 1850, slaves comprised 47% of the population, and almost 43% of the region owned slaves.
What is the Lower South?
300
A slave blacksmith hanged for treason in 1800.
Who is Gabriel Prosser?
300
Abolitionists were disappointed when this law failed to pass after the Mexican American war.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
The brothers who funded Garrison's Liberator.
Who are the Tappan brothers (Lewis and Arthur)?
300
An 1850s political party that showed open hatred for Irish immigrants and Catholics.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
400
Exchanging the boat ticket of an indentured servant for 50 acres of colonial territory. No scalping involved, unless the land belonged to a Native American.
What is the Headright System?
400
His army was comprised of runaways and stolen property that made one famous plantation owner quick to arm and train black slaves.
Who is Lord Dunmore?
400
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The idea of popular sovereignty was unveiled on the country in the Midwest after this law repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
His abolitionist newspapers were hated in Illinois, so much that his press was burned and he was dragged through the streets of Alton, IL.
Who is Elijah Lovejoy?
400
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He thought that God wanted to dangle you over a pit of vipers/scorpions/brimstone/fire/demon nightmares.
People loved it.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
500
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!
This Chief Justice helped declare a ruling that slaves can't be legally removed from their owners without a trial.
Who is Roger Taney?
500
Before a much larger claim to fame, this revolutionary killed five Kansas settlers who had moved in due to popular sovereignty laws in Pottawatomie Massacre.
Who is John Brown?
500
The last compromise to allow slavery and non-slavery states to coexist was rejected by a President who felt he had been elected by abolitionists in America.
What are the Crittenden Amendments?
500
The most famous southern slavery apologist: He believed slaves liked being slaves and that the Bible justified slavery.
Who is George Fitzhugh?
500
This was the first democracy on the continent; it started around 1450, before Spanish colonization.