Lead slaves to freedom along the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
100
The two things harriet Tubman told her husband she had a right to.
What were liberty and death?
100
The Name of the new country that seceded from the United States.
What is The Confederate States of America?
100
This compromise between the states would allow California to be admitted as a free state. The North would agree to obey the Fugitive Slave Law, and the other territories that had been gained from Mexico would decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
100
Part of a newspaper that describes an important event that has recently taken place.
What is a news article?
200
A freed slave who learned to read and write. He wrote a book about his early life as a slave.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
200
A system of secret routes that escaping captives followed to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
200
A sentence or phrase printed in large type across the top of a news article.
What is a headline?
200
The senator from Kentucky, a slave owner, believed in the United States, the union of states. He wrote the Compromise of 1850.
Who was Henry Clay?
200
President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
300
A slave who led a rebellion against slave owners in Virginia, killing men, women, and children.
Who was Nat Turner?
300
The escaping slaves who followed the Underground Railroad were called this.
What were passengers?
300
A detailed report on a person, an issue, or an event in a newspaper.
What is a feature article?
300
Free soilers joined with abolitionists to form this political party that abelieved that no person should own another and that all new states should be free states.
What was the Republican Party?
300
President of the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
400
An abolitionist who published the Liberator, a newspaper in Boston. He wrote against slavery.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
400
Abolitionists Lucretia Mott, Cady Stanton, and other women decided to hold this in Seneca, New York in 1848.
What was a convention about women's rights?
400
Lincoln's stand on slavery that differed from that of other candidates in the race for President.
What is he opposed the spread of slavery to new territories?
400
This law allowed the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide for themselves whether to allow slaver. Both were north of the Missouri Compromise Line.
What was tje Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
400
The belief that states should be allowed to make their own decisions about most issues.
What are state's rights?
500
The first women to speak publicly for the abolitionist cause - against slavery.
Who were the Grimke sisters, Angelinea and Sarah?
500
The Declaration of Rights and Sentiments, written at the Seneca Falls Convention stated that women had these.
What were 18 rights women had?
500
The number of southern states that seceded from the United States of America and formed their own country.
What is 7 states?
500
This stated that slaves were property.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
500
An article in a newspaper which the editors, or people who run the newspaper, give their opinions on important issues.