Know the People
Vocabulary
Hard Vocab
100
An American abolitionist leader.
Who was John Brown?
100
This is an image of.
What is sectionalism?
100
Guaranties civil rights and liberties to the individual.
What are Federal rights?
200
Among the first women to speak publicly against slavery.
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
200
Repeated outbreaks of violent Guerrilla warfare between pro and antislavery forces.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200
A compromise in which California was admitted to the U.S. as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850
300
This is, and he did.
Who is Dred Scott, a slave who sued for his freedom?
300
The belief that the right and power of the state are more important than the right and power of the federal government.
What is States Rights?
300
An act that allowed the people who moved to these territories to decide for themselves whether or not to have slavery.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
400
An American statesman and political theorist from SC who supported slavery.
Who is John C. Calhoun?
400
To declare a law invalid and of no effect.
What is the definition of Nullify?
400
A plot to execute the white enslavers and liberate the city of Charlestown, and then sail to Haiti.
What is the Denmark Vesey Plot?
500
An American author and abolitionist who wrote Uncle Toms Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
A small landowning farm.
What is a yeoman farmer?
500
A religion and social event emerging from the Second Great Awakening, where hundreds were gathered for days.
What is a Camp Meeting?