Definitions!
To remove or break away
What is secede?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The Missouri Compromise added this state as a free state
What is Maine?
This man was known as the Great Compromiser
Who is Henry Clay?
This year's presidential election caused the South to leave the Union
What is 1860?
A majority rules vote
Harriet Tubman was known by fellow slaves by this nickname
What is Moses?
The Missouri Compromise banned further slavey north of this line
What is 36 30?
Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to decide slavery by this
What is popular sovereignty?
The South became known as this new country
What is the Confederate States of America?
Someone who is opposed to slavery
What is abolitionist?
This former slave made speakng tours in the North against slavery
Who is Sojouner Truth?
The Compromise of 1850 added this state as a free state
What is California?
This man murdered 5 pro slavery men in Kansas
Who is John Brown?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired at this Union Fort in South Carolina
What is Ft Sumter?
The belief that your region of the nation is the best and its needs come first
What is sectionalism?
The Liberator was a Boston abolitionsit newspaper published by this man
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The Compromise of 1850 allowed for this contreversial pro Southern law
What is the fugitive slave act?
This slave tried, and failed, to sue for his freedom after his master brought him north
Who is Dred Scott?
This dispute over tarrifs in 1832 almost led to South Carolina leaving the Union
What is the Nullification Crisis?
A tax on imported goods
What is a tarrif?
John Brown raided this federal armory in an attempt to start a slave revolt
What is Harper's Ferry?
The Compromise of 1850 banned the slave trade in this city
What is Washington D.C.?
This person murdered 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas
Who is John Brown?
Abraham lincoln ran against this man for both senate in 1858 and president in 1860