The Antebellum Period

a person who ends slavery

• abolitionist

• slaver

• trade union

• artisan

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights.

• secede

• slave rights

• trade union

• slave codes

To withdraw from membership in a group.

• abolitionist

• secede

• trade union

• withdraw

An underground railroad is a network of abolitionists who secretly helped enslaved people escape to freedom in the North or Canada.

• true

• false

Association of trade workers formed to gain higher wages and better working conditions.

• trade union

• union trade

• slave traders

• abolitionist

The era in the mid-1800s South when the cotton industry was growing fast because of inventions like the Cotton Gin; relied on enslaved people to produce the cotton cheaply

• stamp act

• boom cotton

• cotton boom

• compromise of 1850

An agreement over slavery by which California joined the US as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act was passed.

• stamp act

• discrimination

• compromise of 1850

• fugitive slave act

An abolitionist is a skilled worker

• true

• false

when did the kansas-nebraka act take place?

• 1854

• 1754

• 1856

• 1844

A law that created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska that gave the settlers the right to vote on whether each territory would allow slavery or not.

• the Missouri compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska act

• fugitive slave act

• stamp act