Places
The Southern economy was based on what?
agriculture
Enslaved people, by law, were defined as...
citizens or property?
What is segregation?
True or False: Enslavers always kept families together.
False
In the 1820s, how did Congress COMPROMISE on slavery?
By Maintaining the balance of free and slave states
What were the three parts to the Missouri Compromise?
1. Maine is a free state
2. Missouri is a slave state.
3. A line is drawn across the Louisiana Territory. North of the line was free, South of the line was not.
What not common for enslaved people:
-running away
-pretending to be sick
-killing enslavers
Kiling enslavers
What are slave codes?
laws designed to strictly control enslaved people.
True or False: John C. Calhoun saw slavery as a "positive good" by arguing that enslaved people had better lives than common Northern workers.
True
The debate of slavery in Congress often resulted in the South threatening to do what?
Secede!
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the territories
Many restrictions were placed on free Black people in the South, including not owning a firearm or travel. Why did Southern white people fear?
(think Turner's Rebellion)
Southern white people feared that free Black people could inspire enslaved people to revolt.
This Boston Newspaper shows how the northerners reacted to what law?
Fugitive Slave Act
True or False: Angelina Grimke argued that women's rights were more important than abolition.
False.
Abolition was JUST AS important as women's rights
Uncle Tom's Cabin supported the abolitionist movement by showing that slavery was
Cruel or normal?
Cruel
The southern states that seceded from the Union justified their actions by...
A) declaring that if states could join the Union, they could also leave it
B) declaring the Monroe Doctrine protected the South from the North
A) declaring that if states could join the Union, they could also leave it
This abolitionist believed in violent methods of ending slavery.
John Brown
This Supreme Court decision explained that enslaved people were not citizens, therefore they could not sue in Federal Court.
The Dred Scott Decision
True or False: The Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850 were the only times that Congress compromised on slavery.
(Think 1789...)
False
The Constitution Convention compromised on slavery with the 3/5ths Compromise
Abraham Lincoln's platform for slavery was...
to contain it or keep it from spreading
"We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies."
What is the main goal for the presidents we have learned about so far?
KEEPING THE UNION (UNITED STATES) TOGETHER
What did Harriet Tubman do?
After she escaped slavery, she guided hundreds of enslaved people from the South to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
The Republican Party believed that the government should ban __________ in new states.
slavery
True or False: William Lloyd Garrison's goal was to end slavery with violence.
False!
The Southern states that seceded to form a new country called this.
The Confederacy