Vocabulary
What were the people called who left to find gold in California in 1849?
49er's.
How did the South make their money?
Farming / Agriculture
This act allowed popular sovereignty in western territories.
a. Missouri Compromise
b. Kansas Nebraska Act
c. Compromise of 1850
d. Declaration of Independence
b. Kansas Nebraska Act
This was a series of networks and safehouse that allowed slaves to escape the South under the cover of night.
Write your answer on your board.
Underground Railroad
This person raided Harpers Ferry, an arsenal, for weapons to help the slave escape. He was a white man who believed that he was sent by God to help the slaves to freedom.
a. Fredreick Douglas
b. Harriet Tubman
c. Abraham Lincoln
d. John Brown
d. John Brown
People who wanted to completely get rid of slavery were called
a. Rebuplicans
b. Democrats
c. Patriots
d. Abolitionist
d. Abolitionist
How did the North make their money?
Factories / Manufacturing
Which of the following Compromises allowed Missouri in as a slave state and Maine in as a free state?
a. Compromise of 1850
b. Kansas - Nebraska Act
c. Emancipation Proclamation
d. Missouri Compromise
d. Missouri Compromise
This law required that people return escaped slaves to their owners.
a. Stamp Act
b. Fugitive Slave Act
c. Civil Rights Act
d. Kansas Nebraska Act
b. Fugitive Slave Act
Eli Whitney made this invention that caused the rise in need for more slaves.
a. The Sewing Machine
b. Barbed Wire
c. Cotton Gin
d. Steam Engine
c. Cotton Gin
Many thought that states should be allowed to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery. What was this idea called?
a. Popular Sovereignty
b. Sectionalism
c. Agriculture
d. Secession
a. Popular Sovereignty
Why did the South want to keep slavery?
a. They believed the slaves had rights to their own land and wanted to let them stay.
b. They made most of their money buying and selling slaves
c. Slaves meant cheap labor. They didn't have to pay them wages.
d. They believed they were the only ones who would truly set them free.
c. Slaves meant cheap labor. They didn't have to pay them wages.
a. The United States did not have the resources to handle the high influx of new citizens.
b. The current president would have to approve of new states, and many presidents were hesitant to approve due to current tensions
c. Congress needed to keep a balance of power between free and slave states to prevent on from getting more power over the other.
d. Most people believed the Union was perfect as it was and adding more people would only disrupt the balance.
c. Congress needed to keep a balance of power between free and slave states to prevent on from getting more power over the other.
People who helped guide enslaves people to freedom on the Underground railroad were called..
a. Engineers
b. Conductors
c. Passengers
d. Captains
b. Conductors
What President went again Stephen Douglass in the presidential campaign?
A. Washington
B. Andrew Jackson
C. Abraham Lincoln
D. Thomas Jefferson
C. Abraham Lincoln
This word means that a state is going to leave the United States and become it's own independent nation.
a. Immigration
b. Secession
c. Expansion
d. Revolution
b. Secession
Which of the following crops was called 'King' in the South?
a. Cotton
b. Tobacco
c. Wheat and Barley
d. Corn
a. Cotton
A House Divided speech was one of Lincoln's most famous speeches.
"I do not expect the Union to be dissolved - I do not expect the house to fall - but I do expect it will cease to be divided.
It will become all one thing, or all the other."
What does Lincoln expect to happen to the Union?
a. He expects the Union will need to choose between slavery or not.
b. He expects the Union to completely fall apart under the stress of the decision
c. He expects that slavery will be soon abolished.
d. He expects that the South is going to dissolve
a. He expects the Union will need to choose between slavery or not.
This person escaped slavery themselves, then went back to the south several times in order to help hundreds of other slaves escape the south as well.
a. Harriet Tubman
b. John Brown
c. Fredreick Douglas
d. Stephen Douglas
a. Harriet Tubman
Uncle Tom's Cabin is which of the following?
a. An autobiography by Frederick Douglas
b. A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the harshness of slavery.
c. A pamphlet that was passed about in the North
d. A Southern novel describing why slavery was morally and biblically correct.
B. A book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the harshness of slavery.
"The United States has the natural right to expand across to the Pacific Ocean."
Which idea does this quote follow?
a. Sectionalism
b. Slavery
c. Manifest Destiny
d. Abolitionism
c. Manifest Destiny
Which of the following political parties was popular in the North and Abraham Lincoln's running party?
a. Democratic
b. Whig Party
c. Federalist Party
d. Republican
d. Republican
Fighting broke out in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups. This time period became known as...
a. The Gold Rush
b. The Dust Bowl
c. Bleeding Kansas
d. The Trail of Tears
c. Bleeding Kansas
The country was a common destination for escaped enslaves people because slavery was illegal there.
a. Mexico
b. New York
c. Canada
d. Spain
c. Canada
This person was a slave and wanted his freedom. He sued his owner for it and it went all the way into the Surpreme Court. The Supreme Court ultimately ruled that he did not have any rights as an African American.
a. John Brown
b. Fredrieck Douglas
c. Dred Scot
d. Harriet Tubman
c. Dred Scot