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| 2608906355 | Cotton Kingdom | Areas in the south where cotton farming developed because of the high demand for cotton, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas (partly Florida) | 0 | |
| 2608909550 | Frederick Douglasss | A writer, lawyer, and abolitionist, wrote many books on his experiences. | 1 | |
| 2608911684 | Abolitionism | The militant effort to do away with slavery. It had its roots in the North in the 1700s. It became a major issue in the 1830s and dominated politics after 1840. Congress became a battleground between pro and anti-slavery forces from the 1830's to the Civil War. | 2 | |
| 2608913826 | Harriet Beecher Stowe | Novelist. wrote uncle tom's cabin, a book about a slave who is treated badly, in 1852. the book persuaded more people, particularly northerners, to become anti-slavery. | 3 | |
| 2608917071 | "Peculiar institution" | A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the american south. the term aimed to explain away the seeming contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose declaration of independence states that "all men are created equal". it was one of the key causes of the civil war. | 4 | |
| 2608918511 | Denmark Vesey | Free slave in South Carolina; a mulatto who inspired a group of slaves to seize Charleston, South Carolina in 1822, but one of them betrayed him and he and his thirty-seven followers were hanged before the revolt started. | 5 | |
| 2608920066 | Nat Turner | Slave in Virginia who started a slave rebellion in 1831 believing he was receiving signs from God His rebellion was the largest sign of black resistance to slavery in America and led the state legislature of Virginia to a policy that said no one could question slavery. | 6 | |
| 2608922198 | Theodore Weld | A prominent abolitionist in the 1830's. inspired Uncle Tom's Cabin. Weld put together a group called the "land rebels." He and his group traveled across the old northwest preaching antislavery gospel. Weld also put together a propaganda pamphlet called "American Slavery As It Is". | 7 | |
| 2608929528 | William Lloyd Garrison/The Liberator | A militant abolitionist, he came editor of the Boston publication, The Liberator, in 1831. Under his leadership, The Liberator gained national fame and notoriety due to his quotable and inflammatory language, attacking everything from slave holders to moderate abolitionists, and advocating northern secession. | 8 | |
| 2609140106 | American Anti-Slavery Society | founded in 1833 by William Lloyd Garrison and other abolitionists. Garrison burned the constitution as a pro-slavery document. Argued for "no union with slaveholders" until they repented for their sins by freeing their slaves. | 9 | |
| 2608931330 | Sojourner Truth | United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women (1797-1883) | 10 | |
| 2608932710 | "positive good" | The positive good theory is the idea that slavery was not, actually a "necessary evil," as Jefferson would describe it, but "a good-a positive good" institution for both blacks and whites in that whites get cheap manual labor and blacks benefit from the civilizing effect of being under the guidance of benevolent whites, and exposure to Christianity (John C. Calhoun's response) | 11 | |
| 2608936325 | "Gag Resolution" and John Quincy Adams | This was an agreement that congress would not talk about the issue of slavery to avoid conflict in the government. It angered many Americans because they thought it was against their first amendment rights to discuss these issues. | 12 | |
| 2608939367 | Elijah P. Lovejoy | An American Presbyterian minister, journalist, and newspaper editor who was murdered by a mob in Alton, Illinois for his abolitionist views. | 13 |
