Vocabulary 1
One part of the Compromise of 1850, this law stated that escaped slaves must be returned to masters even if they were in the North and set harsh punishments for those assisting runaway slaves.
Fugitive Slave Act
Black abolitionist from Wilmington who called for the immediate emancipation of slaves; wrote the "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World"-- called for a bloody end to white supremacy; believed the only way to end slavery was for slaves to physically revolt
David Walker
The main way to make money in the South
Agriculture/Farming
Abolitionists
Number of states that remained slave states despite being a part of the Union.
5
Let the people decide by State on whether slavery should be allowed in territories through voting.
Popular Sovereignty
Carolinian who argued against slavery not on moral grounds, but because he believed it was a system that impoverished poor southern whites and kept the South poorer than the North. Wrote "The Impending Crisis of the South"
Hinton Rowan Helper
Crops grown for money
Cash Crops
The secret group of people who helped slaves escape the freedom
Underground Railroad
Capital of the Confederacy
Richmond, VA
These people believed that since the states voluntarily joined the Union, they can also choose to leave.
Secessionists
Leader of a rebellion that caused Southerners to tighten slave codes
Nat Turner
New Immigrants were willing to work here for little money
Factories
The book that sold 300,000 copies in its first year of publication and led to more people becoming abolitionists, despite it being a work of fiction?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Considered the nation's best military officer and commanded the Confederate Army
Robert E. Lee
Law passed that gave North and South part of what they wanted. California admitted as free state., slave trade abolished in D.C., and new fugitive slave law passed; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
Compromise of 1850
American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
These connected cities across the country
Railroads
Former slave who published a newspaper called The North Star
Frederick Douglass
The year in which President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
1865
An agreement in 1820 that accepted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and kept slavery below the 36' 30" N parallel
Missouri Compromise
President of the Confederate States of America, in the South
Jefferson Davis
When states argued over how much power the federal government should have, these states thought that the federal government should be stronger than the states.
North/Northern/Union
The name of the barns, stables, or houses where escaped slaves could stay on their journey to freedom.
Stations
The Amendment which ended slavery in the United States
13th Amendment