Written in 1852, this novel exposed the horror of slavery; in the south, it sparked denial, was considered offensive, and was banned, while in the north, it was popular and spurred the abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
He was dubbed "The Great Compromiser."
Who was Henry Clay?
100
The primary cash crops of the southern agricultural economy.
What were Cotton and Tobacco?
100
Belonging to the period before the American Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
100
I was a runaway slave who used the undergraound railroad to escape, only to later return to the south to lead ver 300 slaves to freedom, including my family. I am the most famous underground railroad conductor, dubbed the Moses of my people.
Who was Harriett Tubman?
200
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery advocates that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory; the dispute further strained the relations of the North and South, making civil war imminent
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
The compromise added Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and added the Missouri Compromise line (36 degree latitude), declaring any part of the Louisiana territory north of the line free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.
What were Slave Codes?
200
A person who believed in abolishing slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
200
I won the 1860 election to become the sixteenth president of the United States; I later issue the Emancipation Proclomation, freeing slaves in the south.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
300
A slave preacher from Virgina who led an 1831 revolt that resulted in the deaths of fifty whites and numerous slaves.
Who was Nat Turner?
300
The compromise that admitted California as a free state, added the Fugitive slave law, solved a border dispute between New Mexico and Texas, and added Popular Sovereignty in New Mexico and Utah.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
The person who oversaw the day to day operations of the plantations.
What is the Overseer?
300
To add territory to an existing town, city, or state.
What is Annex?
300
I wrote a wildly debated novel about slavery, and Lincoln implied that I started the Civil War.
Who was Harriet Beacher Stowe?
400
A radical abolitionist who claimed to be sent by god to end slavery, he led a raid on Harper's Ferry that resulted in his execution.
Who was John Brown?
400
Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law forced Northerners who new about runaway slaves to report the slave to his or her owner.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
The belief that a state's interests should take precedence over the interests of the national government and the primary cause of the civil war.
What is a State's Rights?
400
The foundation of the southern economy.
What is agriculture (and slavery)?
400
I was a self-educated slave who escaped in 1838 and became the best-known abolitionist speaker, editing an anti-slavery weekly called the North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
500
A case in which a slave from Missouri, claimed he was free because he had traveled and lived with his owner in Illinois and Wisconsin- which were both free. The supreme court ruled that he had no right to file suit as a slave, slaves were property, and congress had no right to ban slavery in any part of the country.
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
Part of the compromise of 1850, it allowed the people of each state to vote to be a free state or a slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
The state that nearly seceeded in the years before the Civil War due to a high tariff in 1832.
What is South Carolina?
500
An arms storehouse, like the one at Harper's Ferry.
What is an Arsenal?
500
I was the Illinois senator who debated with Lincoln over slavery to win the Illinois legislature.