Terms
Before the war
What is antebellum?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is crossing the Atlantic to America?
Novel that helped create a great rift between the North and the South
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A few of this group actually owned slaves before the war
What is the South?
The act of leaving the Union
What is secession?
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Voyage on the slave ship from the Africa to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
Provoked a strong antislavery reaction
What is Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
What is the South?
The freeing of the slaves
What is emancipation?
Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act with its affirmation of popular sovereignty
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Last major Western nation to end the foreign slave trade
What is the United States?
Considered to be a martyr by many people opposed to slavery, even though he committed criminal acts
Who was John Brown?
Factory worker from this area were wage slaves because they worked and lived in poor conditions
What is the North?
New national political party opposing slavery formed in 1850s
What is the Republican Party?
Led federal troops to Harper's Ferry and captured John Brown
Who is Robert Lee?
First state to secede the Union
What is South Carolina?
Not free simply because he had lived in a free state
Who is Dred Scott?
Abraham Lincoln was the president of this area
What is the North?
A movement to ban slavery
What is abolitionism?
Won the presidential election because the Democrats' vote was split between candidates
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Name given to the nation formed by the states that seceded from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America?
Result of the competition between proslavery and antislavery groups for control of two territories
What is the Kansas and Nebraska Act?
Jefferson Davis was the President of what area
What is the South?