Abolition & Resistance
Enslaved people resisted their owners through these everyday acts such as breaking tools, working slowly, or escaping.
What were methods of slave resistance?
This woman helped hundreds of enslaved people escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This belief held that women should stay home and care for family and morals, reinforcing traditional gender roles.
What was the Cult of Domesticity?
This term describes loyalty to one’s region rather than the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
This event in Kansas involved violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
This movement sought to end slavery in the United States.
What was the abolitionist movement?
These individuals led a radical, democratic movement that questioned the enslavement of labor in the United States during the 19th century.
Who are abolitionists?
Held in 1848, this was the first women’s rights convention in the United States.
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
This issue deepened divisions between the North and South, with the North opposing it and the South depending on it.
What is slavery?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 to spark a slave revolt.
Who was John Brown?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North and Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This formerly enslaved man became one of the most famous abolitionist speakers and authors of the 1800s.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
At Seneca Falls, women demanded this key right that they were denied in U.S. society.
What was the right to vote (suffrage)?
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain Congressional balance.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This law required citizens to help return escaped slaves and punished those who aided them.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This slave rebellion in 1831 resulted in harsher slave codes across the South.
What was Nat Turner’s slave rebellion?
These abolitionists used newspapers, public speeches, and political action to end slavery.
Who were members of the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This document modeled after the Declaration of Independence listed grievances and called for women’s equality.
What was the Declaration of Sentiments?
This concept allowed settlers to decide whether to allow slavery in their territories.
What was popular sovereignty?
The election of this president in 1860 led to the secession of Southern states from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Founded in 1833, this organization led efforts to end slavery peacefully through petitions, lectures, and publications.
What was the American Anti-Slavery Society?
This powerful speaker and women’s rights activist delivered the famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech.
Who was Sojourner Truth?
In preparation for the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, she wrote the “Declaration of Rights and Sentiments,” which she modeled after the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property and not citizens.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This 1861 event marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?