Antebellum Age

Peculiar Institution is...

• a justification name for slavery
• abolitionists
• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act

The Missouri Compromise was broken when

• When abolitionists attacked Kansas
• Kansas and Nebraska entered the union with the choice of bringing slaves
• When Missouri left the union
• It was never broken

In general, which slaves had the hardest life? 

• field workers
• house servants
• skilled carpenters
• kitchen gardeners

What is the name for the pattern of trade routes shown on the map? 

• Triangular trade
• slave trade
• Middle Passage
• Importing and Exporting 

How did the cotton gin effect slavery?

• It ended slavery
• It increased the number of slaves
• Fewer slaves were brought to plantations
• The slaved did not have a lot of work to do.

Who invented the cotton gin?

• Eli Whitney
• George Washington
• Thomas Jefferson

The argument over slavery became worse when the government was deciding _______.

• to break away from England
• whether or not to allow slavery in the Western territories
• to sell more cotton

What was South Carolina's response to the Election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the US?

• Rejoiced
• Seceded
• Popular Sovereignty
• Asked for a recount

This man was an escaped slave who taught himself to read and write.  He became an influential player in the abolitionist movement?

• Frederick Douglass
• Seceded
• Harriet Tubman
• Harry Tubman

She was known as the Moses of her People?

• Harriet Tubman
• Maya Angelou
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriet Beecher Stowe