The Antebellum South
This year marked the constitutional end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the United States. Although it was illegal to bring purchased West Africans to America, the notorious, yet lucrative still existed illegally until around 1860.
What is 1808?
This secret network of escape routes was created and executed by Black and white abolitionists from the American South to the North, far West, and other areas outside of the United States. Despite its name, these routes were not carried out by trains.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Nat Turner's "day job" (outside of back-breaking plantation labor).
What is a preacher?
The four main causes of the Civil War.
What are...
1. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850/The Compromise of 1850
2. The Dred Scott Decision
3. John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry in West Virginia
4. The presidential election of 1860, and the Election of Abraham Lincoln.
The direct outcome of the end of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in 1808. Its nickname is derived from the second leg of the Triangular Trade from West Africa to the Americas.
What is the internal/domestic slave trade?
OR
What is the "Second Middle Passage"?
These are believed by some to be secret codes on the Underground Railroad. It is believed by many historians and other academics to be a hoax.
What are quilt-pattern codes?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This biblical town was the last stand for Turner and his followers before some were killed, arrested, or sold further South while Turner hid for two months.
What is Jerusalem?
This deeply religious man saw slavery as a pure evil in society. He is responsible for the Pottawatomie Massacre and the attack on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This machine is credited to the American inventor Eli Whitney. It is also partly responsible for the dramatic rise of enslaved African Americans and the violence on American plantations.
What is the Cotton Gin?
The terms used to describe the four (4) key roles on the Underground Railroad.
What are Pilots, Conductors, Passengers, and Stations/Station Masters?
This daytime event (it happened twice in the same year) served as "signs by God" for Turner to begin planning and start the attack.
What is a solar eclipse?
The Confederate States of America's attack on this South Carolina federal military base is marked as the official start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The number of enslaved West Africans brought directly from the West African Coast to the United States.
What is around 400,000 West Africans?
These organizations came about as a form of surveillance and search crews for enslaved people and runaways. They are also argued (and proven) to be the origins of the current American policing system.
What is the Slave Patrol?
OR
What were "Paddy Rollers"?
Turner claimed that this biblical quote was used in a message to him from God to plan an event to free himself and other enslaved people.
What is "the first shall be the last and the last shall be the first"?
Chief Supreme Court Justice Taney stated in the Dred Scott Decision that Scott, his family, and all Black Americans could not have any legal case or federal protection because they lacked this fundamental American privilege.
What is citizenship?
The rise of "King Cotton" and the population of enslaved people in the South caused these stately properties to grow in number across the American South.
What is the rise of plantations?
This African American man literally delivered himself to freedom in the Northern United States. He received a nickname based on this act.
Who is Henry "Box" Brown?
These two laws became the consequence of for enslaved and free African Americans in Virginia (and other southern states) after the Nat Turner Rebellion in Southampton County.
What are...
1. Making it illegal to teach enslaved people how to read or write.
AND
2. Any free (Black) person could be sold into slavery as a form of punishment.
DOUBLE JEOPARDY
This caused the events of "Bloody Kansas" and the influx of 'Border Ruffians' (pro-slavers) and Free-Staters (anti-slavers) in the Kansas Territory.
What is Popular Sovereignty?