Abolitionists
This abolitionist helped slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
Allegiance to one region of the country, rather than the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
this law gave the federal government the power to exchange Native land east of the Mississippi River, for land out west that was acquired through the Louisiana Purchase, specifically the territory that will become Oklahoma.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
This is the system that dominated South Carolinian society and politics during the Antebellum Era.
What is the plantation system?
Political power belongs to the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
A white abolitionist who played a major part in Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
These laws were strengthened because whites in the south feared possible slave revolts after the Stono Rebellion, the Denmark Vessey Plot, and the Nat Turner Rebellion.
What are the Slave Codes?
Accepting American customs such as Christianity, learning to read and write English, and adapt to the idea of land ownership.
What is George Washington's plan to "civilize the Indian problem?"
This is what Southerners used to justify slavery.
What is positive good?
This was the basis for the south's economy.
What is agriculture/farming?
Penned the book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave, and that sparked outrage in the North and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Southerners feared abolitionists and some freed slaves after this event increased sectionalism.
What is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
Thousands of Native Americans died on the journey to Oklahoma during a forced relocation.
What is the Trail of Tears?
This invention impacted the lives of slaves and the political rights of white South Carolinians.
What is the cotton gin?
Group that felt the "only option" the South had was to break away from the Union.
Who are secessionists?
An enslaved man who led a rebellion of enslaved people on August 21, 1831. His action set off a massacre of up to 200 Black people and a new wave of oppressive legislation prohibiting the education, movement, and assembly of enslaved people.
Who is Nat Turner?
An area of land in the colonial era that established strong trade, small farms, and emancipated their slaves after the Revolutionary War.
What is the North?
The act forced natives off their land because their land was valuable to cotton growers.
What is the Indian Removal Act?
maids, butlers, cooks, nannies, field workers, overseers, launderers, etc.
What jobs did the slaves do?
According to John C. Calhoun, this was needed in order to nullify a federal law and declare it unconstitutional.
What is a special convention?
These women left their southern plantation life and the riches that came with it to help the Abolitionist Movement.
Who are the Grimke Sisters?
An antislavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison.
What is the Liberator?
The Choctaw, Chickasaw, Seminole, Creek, and Cherokee Native nations who accepted American customs.
Who are the "Five Civilized Tribes?"
A waterway that was completed in 1824 and played an important role in the commercial and industrial development of Columbia, South Carolina. It was historically significant for its influence on the city’s growth.
What is the Columbia Canal?
Henry Clay was instrumental in the compromise between Maine and the state for which the compromise is named in order to maintain a balance of free and slave states. It also prohibited slavery north of 36 30' latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise 1820?