Slavery
A network of people, places, and routes that fugitive slaves used to escape slavery.
What is the Underground Railroad?
A rebellion led by an ensalved man who believed he was told by god to kill his enemies with their own weapons.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
A landmark Supreme Court case ruled that slaves are property, not people.
What is Dred Scott?/ What is Scott v Sanford?/ What is The Dred Scott Decision?
Political party formed to oppose slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
"The Prophet," who led a slave rebellion killing about 50 white people, was later hanged.
Who is Nat Turner?
A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States.
What is an abolitionist?
3 ways enslaved people fought back against the institution.
What are breaking tools, faking illness, and running away?
Required citizens to aid slave catchers and denied rights to fugitives.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Political party that believes new land should be free, and slavery should not spread into new territories.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
Notorious figure in the Underground Railroad, made about 19 trips to the South, bringing about 300 enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Lwas and Regulations put in place to ensure enslaved people were controlled
What are Slave Codes?
A group of the first 7 southern states that seceded from the Union at the beginning of Abraham Lincoln's presidency.
What is the Confederate States of America?
Allowed people living in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on the issue of slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
John Breckenridge, Stephen Douglas, John Bell, Abraham Lincoln.
Who were the candidates of the 1860 Presidential Election?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which gained popularity and sympathy internationally and among white housewives.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The bond enslaved people made with each other.
What is kinship?/ What is fictive kin?
Fighting between Northerners and Southerners over the Kansas Territory becoming a free or slave state, and election fraud.
Bleeding Kansas
Prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36°30′ parallel, except for Missouri.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Split during the Election of 1860 and had two separate candidates.
What is the Democratic Party?
A strict Calvinist who attacked the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in the hope of starting a revolution and ending slavery
Who is John Brown?
A symbol of both freedom and bondage for enslaved people.
What is the Mississippi River?
The goal was to gather arms for a slave revolt, which ended in death and hostages; the first person to die was a free black man.
What is John Brown's Raid in Harper's Ferry?
Broken into 5 parts, includes the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Debates centered around slavery between a republican and democratic candidate for the Illinois senator seat.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Ran for President in 1860, wanted to stop the spread of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?