ANTEBELLUM WEB QUEST

How did the book, Uncle Tom’s Cabin contribute to the North’s anti-slavery

feelings?

http://video.pbs.org/video/2295592489/http://www.gradesaver.com/uncle-toms-cabin/study-guide/about/

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# 1

What did Harriet Beecher Stowe

do to make President Lincoln

greet her by saying, “So you are

the little woman who wrote the

book that started this great war.” 

http://www.biography.com/people/harriet-beecher-stowe-9496479http://video.pbs.org/video/2295592489/

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# 2

What role did Henry Clay play in keeping the nation unified at the beginning of the 19th century?

http://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute/Clays_Last_Compromise.htm# 3

WHY WAS JOHN

BROWN CONSIDERED A HERO BY

SOME AND A TERRORIST BY OTHERS?

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html# 4

How did a slave named Dred Scott’s bid to reach his freedom end up negatively effecting most blacks in the country?

http://video.pbs.org/video/2365118443/http://www.biography.com/people/dred-scott-9477240

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# 5

WHO WERE THE ABOLITIONISTS AND WHAT ROLE DID THEY PLAY IN THE EVENTS

LEADING UP TO THE CIVIL WAR?

http://www.history.com/topics/abolitionist-movement# 6

HOW DID SECTIONALISM

AND ALL THE FEELINGS

ASSOCIATED WITH IT

CONTRIBUTE TO THE CIVIL WAR?

http://www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/history/what-was-sectionalism-in-america-before-the-civil-war

# 7

HOW THE IDEA OF NULLIFICATION

HELP CONTRIBUTE TO THE CIVIL

WAR?

http://history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-war/nullification.htm# 8

HOW THE IDEA OF STATE’S RIGHTS HELP CONTRIBUTE TO THE CIVIL WAR?

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-war-overview/statesrights.html

# 9

Who did the Slave codes of the 1800’s pertain to?

https://www.boundless.com/u-s-history/slavery-and-reform-1820-1840/slavery-in-the-u-s/slave-codes/

# 10

WHAT WAS THE ANTEBELLUM ERA AND WHAT ARE SOME IMPORTANT EVENTS THAT HAPPENED THEN?

http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the-antebellum-period.htm

# 11

WHAT ROLE DID POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY PLAY IN THE KANSAS-NEBRASKA ACT?

http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=28

# 12

HOW DID THE GEORGIA

PLATFORM HELP SAVE THE UNION AFTER THE

COMPROMISE OF 1850?

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/georgia-platform

# 13

HOW DID THE

ELECTION OF 1860

HELP LEAD TO THE

CIVIL WAR?

http://ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles/ArticleView.cfm?AID=32

# 14

ACCORDING TO THE COMPROMISE OF 1850, WHAT NEW STATES OR TERRITORIES WERE TO ENTER THE COUNTRY AS FREE OR SLAVE STATES?

http://www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarysources/compromise-of-1850.html

# 15

WHAT BALANCING ACT WAS ACCOMPLISHED BY THE

MISSOURI COMPROMISE?

http://www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise

# 16

WHAT WERE ALEXANDER STEPHENS FEELINGS ABOUT GEORGIA SECEDING

FROM THE UNION?

http://www.history.com/topics/alexander-h-stephens

# 17

How did industrialization during Antebellum times differ between

the North and the South?

http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/antebellum-industrialization

# 18

How did the improvement of the harvesting of cotton

impact the South’s economy?

http://www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/king-cotton/

# 19

R2-12

What role did Fredrick Douglas play in the

abolishment of slavery?

http://www.history.com/topics/frederick-douglass/videos#frederick-douglas

http://www.history.com/topics/frederick-douglass

# 20

How are the Kansas Nebraska Act and the term “Bleeding Kansas” related?

http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas

# 21

What role did Harriet Tubman play in the Underground

Railroad?

http://www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas/videos#harriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroadhttp://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blharriettubman.htm

# 22

REVIEW VIDEO

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0EbSD4w-I0