Politics & Court Decisions
This law forced Native Americans to move west of the Mississippi River in 1830
Indian Removal Act
This abolitionist helped enslaved people escape to freedom using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The election of this president led Southern states to secede from the United States
Abraham Lincoln
This machine made it easier to clean cotton and increased the demand for enslaved labor
The Cotton Gin
This 1850 law said that runaway enslaved people had to be returned to their enslavers
Fugitive Slave Act
This famous abolitionist escaped slavery and gave powerful speeches. He is known for writing an autobiography
Frederick Douglass
This 1820 agreement determined which states would allow slavery and which would not
Missouri Compromise
The idea that the United States was fated to spread westward
Manifest Destiny
The Dred Scott decision of 1857 said that Black people could not be _________________
citizens
This abolitionist killed five people in the name of fighting slavery in Kansas in 1856
John Brown
This 1854 law let people in new states vote on whether or not to allow slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe convinced many Northerners to oppose slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This state's 1858 senatorial race featured debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas
Illinois
This enslaved man led a violent rebellion in Virginia in 1831
Nat Turner
This compromise at the Constitutional Convention ensured that Black people counted toward a state's population, but did not get representation
The name of William Lloyd Garrison's anti-slavery newspaper
The Liberator
This person was the Supreme Court Chief Justice in the Dred Scott case
Roger Taney
This abolitionist gave the famous “Ain’t I a Woman?” speech for women’s and African Americans’ rights
Sojourner Truth
The first state to secede from the Union in 1860
South Carolina
Stephen Douglas believed that this was the best way to determine if a state would allow slavery or not
popular sovereignty