Impending Crisis

Question 1

What did the Mason Dixon line do?

Answer 1

The line separated non-slave states from slave states from Maryland, Pennsylvania and Delaware

Question 2

The Plantation Myth

Answer 2

Stated that slaves had better life’s than white people did. And that white people were really the slaves.

Question 3

The Know-Nothings?

Answer 3

People who hated immigrants, blacks,catholics, irish, etc. But were pro-slavery and basically initiated the KKK.

Question 4

Antebellum mean?

Answer 4

Pre-civil war

Question 5

Who was Harriet Tubman?

Answer 5

An African-American abolitionist, humanitarian, and Union spy during the American Civil War. Born into slavery she escaped and helped rescue over 300 slaves. She was also known as the “Black Moses”

Question 6

Harriet Beecher Stowe

Answer 6

Abolitionist and author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Question 7

Kansas/ Nebraska Act?

Answer 7

Allowed each territory to decide the issue of slavery on the basis of popular sovereignty. Kansas with slavery would violate the Missouri Compromise, which made the north angry. But senator Stephan A. Douglas of Illinois biggest desire was a transcontinental railroad to go through Chicago.

Question 8

What was the Bleeding of Kansas?

Answer 8

Over 800 pro-slavery people marched to Lawrence town and burned the homes, buildings and threw the printing presses of the newspaper offices in the river.

Question 9

Hinton Helper

Answer 9

He was an abolitionist that published books to the non-slaveholders of the south. Also author of the impending crisis.

Question 10

What presidents were involved in the Amistad case?

Answer 10

President Martin Van Buren, John Quincy Adams which during the case was a house representative and practicing lawyer.

Question 11

What countries were involved in the court case of Amistad?

Answer 11

West Africa, Spain, and America.

Question 12

Compromise of 1850?

Answer 12

Declared that all runaway slaves were, upon capture, to be returned to their masters.

Question 13

Fugitive Slave Laws

Answer 13

Forced authorities to return fugitive black slaves living in free states to their masters.

Question 14

Personal Liberty Laws

Answer 14

Made it possible for fugitive slaves to have the right to a jury trail in the north states like Indiana, Connecticut, etc

Question 15

Missouri Compromise

Answer 15

Made Missouri a slave state and in return made Maine a free state. Also it made a line bordering the slave and anti-slave regions in Louisiana.

Question 16

Sumner/ Brook issue?

Answer 16

Senator Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was giving a speech on the bleeding of Kansas when senator Andrew Butler beat him with a cane.

Question 17

Abolition Vs. Apologist

Answer 17

Abolitionist were usually from the north and anti-slavery. While the apologists were from the south and pro- slavery.

Question 18

Gag rules

Answer 18

A law intended to limit freedom of the press, as by instituting censorship or restricting access to information.

Question 19

Frederick Douglass

Answer 19

After escaping from slavery, he became a leader of the abolitionist movement by writing antislavery

Question 20

Dred Scott Case

Answer 20

He was a slave who had been taken to a free slave state and then taken back to a slave state. He took his case to court to ask for an emancipation. But the court found that no black, free or slave, could claim U.S. citizenship, and therefore blacks were unable to petition the court for their freedom.

Question 21

Nat Turner

Answer 21

Turner’s rebellion was one of the bloodiest and most effective in American history.

Question 22

Denmark Vessey

Answer 22

An African-Caribbean who was famous for organizing a big slave revolt in the U.S. IN 1822.

Question 23

John Brown

Answer 23

Was a big abolitionist who thought that the only way to stop slavery was to use arms and was a big role in massacres.

Question 24

Impact of the underground railroad

Answer 24

Since it operated at night a lot of abolitionists used it to move fugitive slaves to the north helping slaves escape from their masters.

Question 25

Harpers Ferry

Answer 25

That’s where john Brown led an unsuccessful raid against federals and was captured and later hung.