Important Terms
This is when you disagree with someone and meet in the middle of the disagreement.
What is a compromise?
This compromise in 1820 allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state but banned slavery in the rest of the West.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This act was passed in 1850 and allowed Southern Slave owners to go to the North and get their runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This woman helped lead slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This President was a movie star in the 1940s film Santa Fe Trail.
Who is Ronald Reagan?
This is someone who fights against slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Northern factories needed the Southern States to continue to have slavery to supply this raw material.
What is cotton?
This is the system that was used to hide runaway slaves so they could eventually make it to the North to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This man became the 16th President of the United States, and helped the U.S try to win the U.S Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the main cause of the U.S. Civil War.
What is a slavery?
This is the term for someone who runs away from law enforcement.
What is a fugitive?
This Compromise allowed the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This was the name given to the violent conflicts happening in the Kansas territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This person led the raid on Harpers Ferry in Virginia and was arrested and hanged for his crime.
Who is John Brown?
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This is typically where people store weapons, usually for the federal government.
What is an armory?
This act allowed for Popular Sovereignty in the Kansas territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This court case decided that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, and that African-Americans were not citizens and couldn't sue in court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
This man was a slave and fought for his freedom in court, but eventually lost in the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott?
This is the name for states that stayed loyal to the U.S during the Civil War but still owned slaves.
What is a border state?
This is when people in an area decided on an issue, for example, slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This state became a free state after the Missouri Compromise was passed.
What is Maine?
This man was a fugitive slave who was taken from Boston and brought back to the South.
Who is Anthony Burns?
This man was a runaway slave and became a famous abolitionist, meeting with famous presidents about his time as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
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