Abolitionists
This woman wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The North and South disagreed strongly over this issue.
What was slavery?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
He was elected president in 1860 and opposed the spread of slavery.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise used popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
A person who wanted to end slavery was called this.
What is an abolitionist?
This abolitionist led raids to fight slavery, including one at Harpers Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
The South depended heavily on this type of economy.
What was plantation agriculture?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to enslavers.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This senator argued against slavery spreading into western territories.
Who was Stephen A. Douglas?
This act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A state where slavery was illegal was called this.
What is a free state?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
The North became more industrialized, meaning it focused more on these.
What were factories and manufacturing?
Violence broke out in this territory after the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What was “Bleeding Kansas”?
This president of the Confederacy led the South during the Civil War.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This idea let people vote to decide whether slavery would be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
The group of southern states that left the Union was called this.
What was the Confederacy?
In this 1857 speech, Abraham Lincoln warned that the United States could not continue permanently divided between free and slave states.
What was the “House Divided” speech?
This escaped enslaved man became a famous speaker and abolitionist.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
This term describes loyalty to one’s region over the country as a whole.
What is abolish or limit slavery?
This Supreme Court case ruled enslaved people were not citizens.
What was the Dred Scott decision?
This senator from Kentucky was known as the “Great Compromiser” for helping create agreements between the North and South.
Who was Henry Clay?
This line from the Missouri Compromise divided future free and slave territories.
What was the 36°30′ line?
The northern states during the Civil War were called this.
What was the Union?
This abolitionist newspaper publisher started The Liberator.
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
This term describes loyalty to one’s region over the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This event is often considered the start of the Civil War.
What was the attack on Battle of Fort Sumter?
This senator from South Carolina strongly defended slavery and states’ rights.
Who was John C. Calhoun?
Question: Southern states used this term for leaving the Union.
What is secession?
This term means to officially free enslaved people.
What is emancipation?