What ancient Greek state did slavery supporters regard as a model of democracy and slavery?
Athens
Name the slave involved in the famous Supreme Court decision of 1857.
Dred Scott
What state was admitted as a slave state under the terms of a compromise reached in 1820?
Missouri
What crop made slavery an important economic institution in Virginia, Maryland and Kentucky?
Tobacco
What was "manumission"?
The freeing of a slave
Who was the main "architect" of both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
On what basic platform or principle was the Republican Party formed in the 1850's?
Non-extension of slavery
Where did the Northwest Ordinance of 1787 prohibit slavery?
North of the Ohio River
What term describes the various state laws restricting the mobility, education, etc. of slaves?
slave codes
On the eve of the Civil War, what state had the largest slave population?
Virginia
What crop made slavery an important economic institution in Louisiana?
sugar
Throughout most of the south, what crop, grown on plantations, gave slavery an economic justification?
cotton
In the history of American slavery why is Harriet Beecher Stowe important?
author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who led a violent slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner
What constitutional amendment brought about the complete abolition of slavery in the US?
13th
In the US Constitution, what did both North and South agree that Congress could abolish after 1808?
the slave trade
What escaped female slave, known as "Moses", was a major force in the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
In what state did the Denmark Vesey Slave Plot of 1822 occur?
South Carolina
What escaped slave became a famous abolitionist orator, writer and newspaper (North Star) owner?
Frederick Douglass
What African nation was founded in 1822 by freed US slaves?
Liberia
What term describes the secret system to help fugitive slaves escape north to freedom?
Underground Railroad
What method of buying and selling slaves was commonly used throughout the south?
Public Auction
On the slavery issue, who said: "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?
Abraham Lincoln
What Eli Whitney invention of 1793 revived the apparently dying institution of slavery?
Cotton Gin
By the 1820 compromise, what was to by slavery's northern limit in the Louisiana Purchase area?
36 degrees, 30'
What famous line traditionally separated slavery from free soil in Eastern United States?
Mason-Dixon line
What Illinois Senator advocated "popular sovereignty" for determining slavery in the territories?
Stephen A. Douglas
What antislavery newspaper was founded in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison in 1830?
The Liberator
What was the 1st state to abolish slavery, 1774?
Rhode Island
Where did the Compromise of 1850 abolish the slave trade, but not slavery itself?
District of Columbia