Interactive Vocabulary

Antebellum means

• Latin word meaning before the war and the Antebellum Era is the period that is used to describe the time AFTER the Civil War began in the United States

• Greek word meaning before the war and the Antebellum Era is the period that is used to describe the time BEFORE the Civil War began in the United States

• Latin word meaning before the war and the Antebellum Era is the period that is used to describe the time BEFORE the Civil War began in the United States

• Greek word meaning before the war and the Antebellum Era is the period that is used to describe the time AFTER the Civil War began in the United States

Those that opposed slavery and fought for the emancipation (freedom) of slaves and the end of the slave trade were called what?

• Abolitionist

• Anti-Slavery

• Pro-Slavery

• Sectionalist

This describes the movement to end the slave trade and emancipate American slaves during the 1800s

• Abolitionists

• Anti-Slavery

• Sectionalists

• Abolition

What was the agreement that would allow California to be admitted to the Union as a frees state, slavery in Washington D.C. would be restricted, and the Fugitive Slave Law would be enforced in northern or free states

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Fugitive Slave Law

The Cotton Gin was

• was invented by Eli Whitney in 1865 which made the cotton processing process easier

• was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 which made the cotton processing process easier

• was invented by Eli Whitney in 1993 which made the cotton processing process harder

• was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793 which made the cotton processing process harder

A Free State is

• that refers to an area of the Untied States where slavery was NOT allowed before the Civil War

• that refers to an area of the Untied States where slavery was WAS allowed before the Civil War

• that refers to an area of Canada where slavery was NOT allowed before the Civil War that run away slaves sought to escape to.

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This was mandated the return of escaped slaves, regardless of where in the Union they might be at the time of their discovery or capture.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• The Force Act

• The Nullification Crisis

• The Fugitive Slave Act

The difference between a slave and an indentured servant is that an indentured servant

• is the system of forced labor in which a person is considered to be the property of another person

• are required to conduct forced labor against their will and were required to work until their death, they could purchase their freedom, or their manument.

• bound to work for another for a specified time especially in return for payment of travel expenses and maintenance. In other words, they volunteer for to be enslaved for a period of time and are then released once their debts are paid

• None of these

This act proposed in 1854 by Stephen A. Douglas introduced this bill to the Senate, to allow new states to enter the Union with or without slavery through what was called Popular Sovereignty

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• None of these

is the term that was used by southern politicians to describe the importance of cotton to the plantation of economy of the south

• King Cotton

• King Cash Crops

• King Tobacco

• King Charles I