U's

Question 1

“Uncle Tom’s Cabin”

Answer 1

a fictional book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe depicting what she perceived as the evils of slavery; furiously denounced in the South, the book became an overnight bestseller in the North, where it turned many toward active opposition to slavery

Question 2

Underground Railroad

Answer 2

a loosely organized system to help fugitive slaves flee from their masters in the South to freedom in the North

Question 3

Union League

Answer 3

an organization used by Southern Republicans to control the black vote; by the following year, six more states (Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas) had followed suit

Question 4

Unions

Answer 4

groups of workers organized to fight for benefits, an early example of which occurred in 1835 when Boston construction craftsmen struck for seven months to win a ten-hour work day

Question 5

Unstable Pluralism

Answer 5

a term used by historians to describe the population of New Netherlands, which was a mixture of people from all over Europe, as well as many African slaves

Question 6

Urban Slaves

Answer 6

black slaves who worked in Southern towns, serving as factory hands, domestics, artisans, and construction workers and who lived fairly independent lives

Question 7

Utopians

Answer 7

people who established cooperative communities in the mid-nineteenth century in an attempt to improve the life of the common man in the face of increasing impersonal industrialism in the United States