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Slave Trade
Slave Life
Lead Up to War
Lincoln, We Have a Problem
Miscellaneous
100
What European Country "began" the Trans-Atlantic slave trade?
What is Portugal
100
What was the main crop of the south?
Cotton
100
Stephen Douglas proposed a railroad to travel from ______to ________
Chicago to the Pacific Ocean
100
Who did Lincoln challenge for the IL senate seat?
Stephen Douglas
100
Who wrote the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay, duh.
200
Who sold the African people to Europeans?
Tribal leaders/Africans
200
What did states pass that prohibited slaves from traveling far from their homes?
Slave Codes
200
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
Allowed people to decide whether to be a slave or free state.
200
Who led the nation's 2nd slave uprising?
John Brown
200
What did MS, FL, AL, GA, LA, TX, and S.C. form?
Confederate States of America
300
What area of Africa did slaves come from?
West coast
300
What is the name of the system where all field hands worked on the same task at the same time?
Gang-Labor System
300
What did Dred Scott argue when he sued?
He had lived in free states for 9 years, therefore he was a free man
300
What happend at Harper's Ferry, VA?
John Brown overtook the arsenal...tried to kill any southerner in his way....arrested...
300
What was the name of the last country to abolish slavery?
Mauritania
400
Approximately how many slaves were shipped across the Atlantic?
12 million
400
Who led the first slave rebellion? (He was hanged and skinned)
Nat Turner
400
Name the 2 main events of Bleeding Kansas
Sacking of Lawrence & Pottawatomie Massacre
400
What did Lincoln promise to not do if elected?
Abolish slavery where it already existed
400
New Mexico and Utah could decide whether to be free or slave under what new condition of the Compromise of 1850?
Popular Sovereignty
500
What 3 things did Europe have that made Africa the ideal place for slaves?
Imperialism, technology, money
500
What required all escaped slaves to be returned to their masters known as?
Fugitive Slave Act
500
Why did the Kansas Nebraska Act elliminate the Missouri Compromise?
People could decide states north of the 36' 30' line to be slave or free (MO Compromise said those states must be free)
500
Lincoln and Buchanan both agreed S.C. could not _____ unless ______
Leave the union, by Revolution
500
John Brown's last words warned what?
The country could not repay its crimes of slavery unless by war.