One of the staple crops of Southern slave plantations
What is cotton?
100
This female abolitionist and former slave led over 300 slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This political party was opposed to the expansion of slavery in the territories and elected Abraham Lincoln as President in 1860
What is the Republican Party?
100
An abolitionist who believed in using violence to fight for abolition. He led the Pottawatomie Massacre
Who is John Brown?
100
The network of escape routes that led runaway slaves to the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Unique to Southern society, slavery was known as this
What is the peculiar institution?
200
A former slave and abolitionist, this man was an excellent speaker and writer and became an active proponent of abolition
Who is Frederick Douglass?
200
The right of residents of a territory to vote for or against slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
200
A slave rebellion led by a slave preacher in 1831 that killed almost 60 white inhabitants
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
200
The novel published by Harriet Beecher Stowe that elicited strong reactions from both the North and the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
One of the arguments in favor of slavery was that slaves wouldn't have been able to take care of themselves because they are this
What are perpetual children?
300
The freeing of slaves with no payment to slaveholders
What is emancipation?
300
An act of legislation that admitted California as a free state but proposed a new and more effective fugitive slave law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
The name given to the violence that erupted over the issue of slavery in Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
This slave sued for his freedom after being brought into a free territory
Who is Dred Scott?
400
By the eve of the Civil War there were this many slaves in the United States
What is 4 million?
400
The abolitionist newspaper created by William Lloyd Garrison
What is The Liberator?
400
Stephen Douglas's answer in the Lincoln-Douglas debates that further divided the Northern and Southern Democrats
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
400
The senator who was attacked and beaten on the Senate floor in 1856 on disagreements over slavery
Who is Charles Sumner?
400
The belief stressed by the Know-Nothing Party that favored native-born Americans over immigrants
What is nativism?
500
This law stated that all states north of the 36 30' parallel would be free and all those south of it would be slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
A free black man who advised blacks to fight for freedom rather than wait for slave owners to end slavery
Who is David Walker?
500
A component of the Compromise of 1850, under this law alleged fugitive slaves were not entitled to a trial by jury and could be captured and sent back into slavery
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
John Brown's attempt to seize a federal arsenal and incite a slave rebellion was here-
What is Harpers Ferry?
500
The person elected to be President of the newly formed Confederate States of America