WorksheetsAntebellum/Abolition
Total questions: 25
Worksheet time: 13mins
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Frederick Douglass
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Angelina Grimke
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was Nat Turner and what did he do?
A white abolitionist who tried to take over an arsenal to end slavery
An enslaved man who started a revolt by killing the white families on plantations
An enslaved man who ran away and started the Underground Railroad
Which two states were admitted through the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
Massachusetts and Missouri
Maine and Massachusetts
Only 1 state was added (Missouri)
What is a nationalist?
Someone who advocated to remove themselves from the nation
Someone who feels loyalty only to their section of the nation
Someone who feels loyalty and pride for their whole nation
What was the nickname for Kansas during the mid-1800s?
The Wild Wild West
Angry Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
What is a sectionalist?
Someone who wants equality in their nation
Someone who feels loyalty to their entire nation
Someone who feels loyalty to their own section of the nation
Check all the things needed for a territory to become a state
>60,000 population
State constituion
Elected officals
Approval from Congress
What is an abolitionist
Someone who wants to violently free enslaved people
Someone who promotes the expansion of slavery
Someone who advocates for the end of slavery
Why did the South threaten to secede in 1849?
California's state constitution outlawed slavery
Abraham Lincoln was elected
The president was going to outlaw slavery
What is “popular sovereignty”?
The territories would be able to vote to decide if slavery should be allowed or not
The new states would have to allow slavery
The country would be able to vote if slavery should be expanded to the entire nation
The notion that states have the right to rule federal acts unconstitutional (or say no to a law) is called…
Secession
Nullifcation
Sectionalism
Nationalism
Who wrote “The Liberator”
John Brown
Angelina Grimke
Frederick Douglass
William Lloyd Garrison
Which region of the country was more industrialized?
North
South
Equal
What was the Underground Railroad?
Underground tunnels that went from slave states to Canada
Secret railroads that enslaved people used to escape north
Network of safe houses to lead enslaved people to freedom
What did the cotton gin do to the institution of slavery?
Increased the demand
Decreased the demand
It did not impact it
Check all that are parts of the local government
Mayor
Police
Citizens
What does antebellum mean?
Pre-Abolition America
Post- Civil War America
Pre-Civil War America
Pre- Abraham Lincoln America
Who won the election of 1860?
George Washington
Stephen Douglass
John Brown
Abraham Lincoln
What are the of the Compromise of 1850?
Cali is a free state
The slave trade is outlawed in DC
Slavery will be outlawed in 40 years
Utah/New Mexico territories are open to slavery
Stricter Fugitive Slave Act
What was the result of Dred Scott decision?
He was given his freedom
Slavery was outlawed
He was still enslaved
What compromise did the Kansas-Nebraska Act repeal?
Compromise of 1850
Missouri Compromise
3/5 Compromise
Lincoln's Compromise
Who was the enslaved man who sued for his freedom after being brought to live in free territory
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
Dred Scott
David Walker
Who was the man that raided Harpers Ferry in order to get weapons for a violent to create an armed revolt against slavery
John Brown
Nat Turner
Abraham Lincoln
Frederick Douglass
What were the personal liberty laws in response to?
The Compromise of 1850
The Fugitive Slave Act
3/5 Compromise
Bleeding Kansas
Check all that are parts of the Federal Government
President
Supreme Court
House of Representatives
Mayor
