Sectionalism and Economy
The Southern economy relied heavily on this labor system.
What is slavery?
People who worked to end slavery as soon as possible were known by this term.
What are abolitionists?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Allowing settlers decide for themselves on an issue.
What is popular sovereignty?
The slave who sued for his freedom because he was brought to a free state.
Who is Dred Scott.
This term describes the growing loyalty people felt toward their own region rather than the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This is a slave who leaves their plantation without permission to try to escape to the North or Canada.
What is a fugitive slave?
Most Northerners felt like this about slavery.
Violent conflict between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers became known by this nickname.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
The Supreme Court ruled that Dred Scott was not this.
What is a U.S. citizen?
Two sides giving up something to come to an agreement.
What is a compromise?
This author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Compromise of 1850 included this to please abolitionists in the North.
What is the end of the D.C. slave trade.
Both pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups rushed into Kansas to do this.
What is influence the vote/control the territory or cause violence?
The Court also ruled Congress had no power to do this in territories.
What is ban slavery?
Rocky terrain, a colder climate, and a short growing season made large-scale farming difficult in the North. Instead, this type of economy developed.
What is trade- and industry-based
This enslaved man led a violent rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
The South was still not satisfied with the Fugitive Slave law because of this.
Southerners still believed this law did not do enough to ensure the return of their escaped property.
This abolitionist led anti-slavery forces in Kansas and later raided Harper’s Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Although Lincoln lost the Senate race, the debates helped him gain this.
What is national popularity/fame?
This compromise provided a framework for adding new states to the US by creating a line westward and declaring that if a state joins the union below the line they are a slave state and if they join above the line they are free.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Someone who is willing to die or be persecuted for a cause.
What is a martyr?
Free Black Americans were affected by the Fugitive Slave Law because they could be this.
What is kidnapped or falsely accused?
This was the guy that gave a speech insulting a southerner and it resulted in him being assaulted on the floor of congress.
Who is Charles Sumner?
These people wanted to stop the expansion of slavery into the new western territories.
Who are free soilers.