ANTEBELLUM Web Quest

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ANTEBELLUM Web Quest
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Video Clip

• How did the book, Uncle Toms Cabin contribute to
  the Norths anti-slavery feelings?

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

• 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. 

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http//www.biography.com/people/harriet-beecher-st
owe-9496479 http//video.pbs.org/video/2295592489/

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

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http//www.senate.gov/artandhistory/history/minute
/Clays_Last_Compromise.htm
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Why was John Brown considered a hero by some and
a terrorist by others?
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http//www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1550.html
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• How did a slave named Dred Scotts bid to reach
  his freedom end up negatively effecting most
  blacks in the country?

Video Clip
http//video.pbs.org/video/2365118443/ http//www.
biography.com/people/dred-scott-9477240
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Who were the abolitionists and what role did
they play in the events leading up to the Civil
War?
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http//www.history.com/topics/abolitionist-movemen
t
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How did sectionalism and all the feelings
associated with it contribute to the Civil War?
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http//www.cliffsnotes.com/cliffsnotes/history/wha
t-was-sectionalism-in-america-before-the-civil-war
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How the idea of nullification help contribute to
the civil war?
http//history.howstuffworks.com/american-civil-wa
r/nullification.htm
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How the idea of states rights help contribute to
the civil war?
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http//www.civilwar.org/education/history/civil-wa
r-overview/statesrights.html
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• Who did the Slave codes of the 1800s pertain
  to?

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https//www.boundless.com/u-s-history/slavery-and-
reform-1820-1840/slavery-in-the-u-s/slave-codes/
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What was the antebellum era and what are some
important events that happened then?
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http//www.wisegeek.org/what-is-the-antebellum-per
iod.htm
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What role did popular sovereignty play in the
Kansas-Nebraska act?
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http//www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flashtruedoc
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How did the Georgia Platform help save the union
after the compromise of 1850?
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http//www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/histor
y-archaeology/georgia-platform
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How did the election of 1860 help lead to the
civil war?
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http//ehistory.osu.edu/uscw/features/articles/Art
icleView.cfm?AID32
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According to the Compromise of 1850, what new
states or territories were to enter the country
as free or slave states?
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http//www.civilwar.org/education/history/primarys
ources/compromise-of-1850.html
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What balancing act was accomplished by the
Missouri Compromise?
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http//www.history.com/topics/missouri-compromise
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What were Alexander Stephens feelings about
Georgia Seceding from the union?
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http//www.history.com/topics/alexander-h-stephens
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How did industrialization during Antebellum times
differ between the North and the South?
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http//www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/histor
y-archaeology/antebellum-industrialization
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How did the improvement of the harvesting of
cotton impact the Souths economy?
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http//www.apstudynotes.org/us-history/topics/king
-cotton/
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What role did Fredrick Douglas play in the
abolishment of slavery?
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http//www.history.com/topics/frederick-douglass/v
ideosfrederick-douglas http//www.history.com/to
pics/frederick-douglass
R2-12
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How are the Kansas Nebraska Act and the term
Bleeding Kansas related?
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http//www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas
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What role did Harriet Tubman play in the
Underground Railroad?
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http//www.history.com/topics/bleeding-kansas/vide
osharriet-tubman-and-the-underground-railroad htt
p//inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blharrie
ttubman.htm
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Review Video

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vN0EbSD4w-I0