Abolitionists
She helped over 300 enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Southern economy depended on this labor system.
What is slavery?
This event in 1860 led Southern states to begin seceding.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This 1820 law kept the balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The North had more of this type of transportation.
What are railroads?
His anti-slavery newspaper was called The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The Northern economy was based more on this than farming.
What is industry (factories/manufacturing)?
This violent event in Kansas showed how divided the country was.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This law allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Most of the South’s money came from this.
What is agriculture/farming?
He escaped slavery and became a famous speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This crop made the South wealthy and dependent on slavery.
What is cotton?
This court decision ruled that enslaved people were property.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This compromise allowed California to enter as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This group wanted high tariffs to protect their factories.
Who are Northerners?
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which turned many Northerners against slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This invention increased demand for slave labor in the South.
What is the cotton gin?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This act forced citizens to return runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The South feared this group had too much power in Congress.
Who are Northerners or abolitionists?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry to start a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
These were Northerners who wanted to bring an end to slavery and stop it from expanding.
What are abolitionists?
This 1859 raid aimed to start a slave rebellion in Virginia.
What is John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry?
This system allowed people to vote on slavery in new territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
The North and South had different views on this issue, leading to tension.
What is slavery?