Slavery
People
Laws
Abolitionists
Arts & Culture
600
Known as King _______ this cash crop was typically grown using slave labor in the South
What is Cotton?
600
Who is Abe Lincoln?
600
This law forced northern states to assist in sending people back into slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
600
Sometimes described as the Moses of her people, this is the best known “conductor” of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
600
These debates for a Senate seat from Illinois were also a PR stunt for both candidates
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
700
The network that enslaved people used to escape to freedom
What is the Underground Railroad?
700
Who is Frederick Douglass
700
This Supreme Court case asserted that Black people were not citizens.
Dred Scott Decision
700
Known as the “Great Emancipator” this relatively moderate lawyer ultimately became the President during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln
700
This religion was used both to condemn slavery and justify it
Christianity
800
Enslaved persons were restricted from learning this academic skill
literacy / reading
800
Who is Harriet Tubman?
800
This compromise ten years before the Civil War started caused even more division
Compromise of 1850
800
This former slave taught himself to read and write, wrote a “narrative” of his life under and escape from slavery, and traveled to the White House during the Civil War to convince Lincoln to free the slaves
Who is Frederick Douglass?
800
This song was later adapted into the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”
What is "John Brown’s Body"?
900
In the constitution, enslaved persons counted for this much of a person for representation in Congress.
3/5ths
900
Who is Roger Taney?
900
This idea said that people in a state should be able to vote if it would be slave or free
Popular Sovereignty
900
William Lloyd Garrison published this well known anti-slavery newspaper that demanded an immediate end to slavery.
What is "The Liberator"?
900
This economic revolution gave the North a long-term edge in the Civil War
What is the industrial revolution?
1000
How many enslaved people were living in the South at the start of the Civil War
4 million
1000
William Lloyd Garrison
1000
This compromise was partially invalidated by the Dred Scott Decision
The Missouri Compromise
1000
The book Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by this abolitionist
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1000
This invention changed how people could “see” the Civil War
What is the camera?