Judgement day

T or F: Slavery did not exist in the nations capital

False

T or F: President Andrew Jackson believed in human equality and hated slavery

False

_____ million acres of land were stolen from Native Americans in order to accommodate Caucasian expansion and settlement

25

_______ was an enslaved woman in Edenton, no who hid it in her grandmother’s attic for seven years before escaping to freedom

Harriet Jacob’s

In 1829 __________ wrote The Appeal which challenged slaves to rise up against their masters

David Walker

T or F: The publican of The Appeal caused Louisiana, Georgia and North Carolina to pass laws which prohibited teaching African-Americans how to read/write

True

William Lloyd Garrison’s paper _______ was the nations main antislavery newspaper

The Liberator

T or F: Jacksonian era “Common Man” embraced all Caucasian men regardless of economics and education

True

_______ was an abolitionist English woman who married into the wealthy slaveholding Butler family of Georgia

Fanny Kimbell

People who were against slavery boycotted ___________ which were produced by slave labor

Rice cotton

In 1847, Frederick Douglas founded _________ an abolitionist newspaper.

The North Star

T or F: The compromise of 1850 admitted California as a slave state in exchange for a less restrictive fugitive slave law

False

True or False: The 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to determine whether the region would be “free” or slave”

True

True or False: “Free Soil States” were or all free men (Caucasian and African-American)

False

The 1857 ___________ decision  via Supreme Court stated that African Americans were not U.S. citizens

Dred Scott

In attempt to completely end slavery, _____________ led an 1859 raid of the federal arsenal at Harper’s ferry, Va.

John Brown

True or False: Frederick Douglass participated in the 1859 raid Harper’s Ferry.

False

In December 1860 ___________ seceded from the Union

South Carolina

True or False: At the beginning of the Civil War, African American men were strongly encouraged to join the Union effort

False

True or False: Slavery never existed in the nations capital

False

Pres. Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation in _________

1863

True or False: The Emancipation Proclamation freed all slaves in the Union

False

Over ______ died in the Civil War

600,000

When the Civil War ended in 1865 ________ millions African American were officially freed

Four