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8th Grade History Chapter 13

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  • Q1
    Term referring to time before the American Civil War

    spirituals

    abolitionist

    secession

    antebellum
    30s
  • Q2
    Term for the enslaved Africans' journey from Africa to America

    Slave Passage

    Underground Railroad

    Middle Passage

    Trail of Tears

    30s
  • Q3
    Institution that offered slaves a chance of escaping and gaining freedom in the North; homes and stops along the path to freedom that housed slaves along the way; reached up to Canada

    Middle Passage

    Trail of Tears

    Underground Railroad

    Slave Passage

    30s
  • Q4
    (1817-1895) American abolitionist and writer; he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer; founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.

    Horace Greeley

    Roger B. Taney

    William Lloyd Garrison

    Frederick Douglass
    30s
  • Q5
    Term for person(s) who wanted to ban all slavery

    wage slave(s)

    secessionist(s)

    abolitionist(s)

    fire-eater(s)

    30s
  • Q6
    Name of slave that escaped from slavery; returned to slave territory nearly 20 times to help other slaves escape; "Moses" of her people

    Stephen Douglas

    Harriett Tubman

    Frederick Douglass

    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    30s
  • Q7
    Name of white abolitionist that began the newspaper, the Liberator; rejected the Bible because he felt it allowed slavery
    William Lloyd Garrison

    Frederick Douglass

    Horace Greeley

    Charles Sumner

    30s
  • Q8
    Name of antislavery journalist that published the New York Tribune

    William Lloyd Garrison

    Frederick Douglass

    Preston Brooks

    Horace Greeley
    30s
  • Q9
    Person who wrote and published Uncle Tom's Cabin; a controversial book before the Civil War that caused many people to develop or strengthen antislavery opinions; angered slave-owners and southern-sympathizers
    Harriet Beecher Stowe

    Horace Greeley

    Harriet Tubman

    Roger B. Taney

    30s
  • Q10
    Name of northern Democrat from Illinois that debated against Lincoln; proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act; popularized the act of popular sovereignty
    Stephen Douglas

    Abraham Lincoln

    John C. Breckinridge

    Frederick Douglass

    30s
  • Q11
    term meaning that settlers of a state would be allowed to decide the slavery issue for themselves

    wage slaves

    popular sovereignty

    secession

    antebellum

    30s
  • Q12
    a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery; led to Bloody Kansas

    Amendment X

    Act of Secession

    Kansas-Nebraska Act

    Fugitive Slave Act

    30s
  • Q13
    political party that believed in the non-expansion of slavery and that consisted of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers who were in defiance of the slave powers
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    30s
  • Q14
    Name of president before Abraham Lincoln (15th president) 1856
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    30s
  • Q15
    Person who gave an angry speech in Congress about the fighting in Kansas; was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks after the speech; caused tensions to increase and became a hot topic as the country leaned more towards war

    Stephen Douglas

    William Butler

    Charles Sumner

    John C. Breckinridge

    30s

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