Antebellum America
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- Q1All of the following crops dominated southern agriculture except:CottonWheatIndigoTobacco20s
- Q2The cotton gin, invented by this man, revolutionized the removal of cotton seeds from cotton.Eli WhitneySojourner TruthNat TurnerFrederick Douglas20s
- Q3Which of the following were freed African Americans in the south NOT ALLOWED to do?travel freelyAll of thesehold certain jobs (usually jobs high in society)vote20s
- Q4The temperance movement was worried that this was causing many of the problems in society and people needed to quit.GamblingVideo GamesSmokingAlcohol20s
- Q5This slave spent time in Illinois, a free state, and thus sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court ruled he was still a slave and that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.Nat TurnerDred ScottWilliam Lloyd GarrisonFrederick Douglas20s
- Q6This man published the abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator, and helped form the American Anti-Slavery Society.Nat TurnerEli WhitneySojourner TruthWilliam Lloyd Garrison20s
- Q7Cash Crops areA law that made it a crime to help escaped slavesStories that often provide a moral lessonCrops that are grown to be sold or exportedLaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves20s
- Q8Folktales areA law that made it a crime to help escaped slavesA person that wants to do away with slaveryStories that often provide a moral lessonLaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves20s
- Q9Slave codes areA person who wants to do away with slaveryA law that made it a crime to help escaped slavesLaws passed that restrict the rights of slavesA network of people who helped slaves escape to the north20s
- Q10Nat Turner wasa person that wants to do away with slaverya network of people who helped slaves escape to the northabolitionist who helped slaves escape through the underground railroada slave leader who led a rebellion to end slavery20s
- Q11Abolitionists arepeople who want to do away with slaverya network of people who helped slaves escape to the northlaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slavescrops that are grown to be sold or exported20s
- Q12Fugitive Slave Act isa law that made it a crime to help escaped slavesa network of people who helped slaves escape to the northan antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowelaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves20s
- Q13Uncle Tom's Cabin wasa law that made it a crime to help escaped slavesan antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher StoweStories that often provide a moral lessonlaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves20s
- Q14The Underground Railroad wasan antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowea network of people who helped slaves escape to the northA person that wants to do away with slaveryLaws passed that greatly restricted the rights of slaves20s
- Q15Harriet Tubman wasAbolitionist who helped slaves escape through the underground railroadslave leader who led a rebellion to end slaverya network of people who helped slaves escape to the northa person who wants to do away with slavery20s