Vocabulary
"Before the War"
Antebellum
California would enter the union as a free state
Outlaw slave trade in Washington DC
Any other state that came from the Mexican Cession would vote whether to be slave state or a free state
Compromise of 1850
Started in the 1830’s; routes/safe houses that were ran by abolitionist people to help slaves escape to free states
Underground Railroad
Wanted to outlaw slavery in the U.S
Abolitionists
A system of stratification of society on the basis of education, property, business/work etc.
Class system
Congress would lower the tariff and SC repealed its nullification of it
Nullification Crisis
Led to:
New cash crop
Need for more slaves
Upcountry farmers increased slave ownership
Political rights for white men
Wealth
Cotton Gin
Writer of the "Liberator"
William Lloyd Garrison
a machine for separating cotton from its seeds.
Cotton Gin
Repealed the 36 30 line of the Missouri Compromise by allowing people living in the territory to vote on whether or not to have slavery
Kansas - Nebraska Act
Court Case
Slave who sued his master for freedom because his master had taken him into free territory
The Dred Scott Case
Escaped from slavery in Maryland and became a prominent leader of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The fact or process of being set free from legal, social, or political restrictions; liberation.
Emancipate
Required that escaped slaves found in free states be caught and returned to their masters. The Act also denied freed slaves the right to a jury trial and other constitutional rights.
Fugitive Slave Act
New political party that wanted a weak national government
Democratic Party
Planned a Slave revolt in Charleston to kill the white population and free all of the slaves
Denmark Vesey