Vocabulary
Areas where slavery was permitted even though they never left the Union
What are border states?
An attack on a federal armory in 1859 in Virginia
What is John Brown's raid?
An abolitionist and escaped slave who gave a speech at Storer College in Harpers Ferry
Who was Frederick Douglass?
People who led escaped slaves to safety
Who are conductors?
What are Confederate states?
To leave a group
What is to secede?
The original name for West Virginia
What is Kanawha?
Abe Lincoln's political party
What was the Republican Party?
A northern country where many slaves escaped to
What is Canada?
Iowa and New York
What are Union states?
A law that requires runaway slaved returned to their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Great Compromiser
Who was Henry Clay?
The number of troops Lincoln called for after Fort Sumter
Who was 75,000?
A former escaped slave who helped over 300 people to freedom in the North
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Maine and California
What are Union states?
The rights given to a state that are not held by the federal government
What are state's rights?
Laws that say what slaves cannot do- like read, write, or gather in groups
What are slave codes?
Victor of the Battle of Fort Sumter
Who was the Confederate States of America?
A mighty river escaped slaves had to cross- it is located on the border of West Virginia
What is the Ohio River?
What are Confederate states?
A war between people in their own country
What is a civil war?
President of the Confederate States of America
What was Jefferson Davis?
A man who ran against Lincoln in the election of 1860 and wanted all states to be slave states
Who was John Breckinridge?
A constellation including the North Star
What is the drinking gourd?
West Virginia and Delaware
What are border states?