People Leading Up to the Civil War
Born into slavery and led hundreds of slaves to freedom through the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Required slaves to be returned to their owners, even if they had escaped to a free state
Fugitive Slave Act
Nickname given to a state for the violence and riots that filled it due to Pro and Anti slavery groups trying to influence elections in the state.
Bleeding Kansas
People who believed slavery was wrong, wanted it to end and stop the expansion of if other for religious or ethical reasons.
Abolitionists
Pro-Slavery "gangs" that rode in and around Kansas trying to run out and intimidate anti-slavery groups.
Border Ruffians
Raided the arsenal at Harpers Ferry, VA to arm slaves & start a rebellion against slavery
John Brown
Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens, but rather property, could never be full citizens, and ruled a compromise unconstitutional
Dred Scott v. Sanford
When Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery senator, nearly beat to death abolitionist senator Charles Sumner.
The Caning of Charles Sumner.
True/False: Most Northerners were true abolitionists who wanted slavery to end everywhere, right now, and believed in true equality of the races.
False
"A House divided against itself, cannot stand"
Abraham Lincoln
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
California was admitted as a free state, the slave trade was banned in D.C., & north had to help return runaway slaves.
Compromise of 1850
John Brown led an attack on a weapons arsenal in Virginia hoping to start a slave revolt.
Harpers Ferry
True/false: Abraham Lincoln was like most people of his time. Opposed expansion and slavery as it was morally wrong, but did not believe in true equality of the races.
"I wish that I owned every slave in the South, for I would free them all to avoid this war.”
Robert E Lee.
President who won election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Drew an imaginary line at Missouri's Southern border, states above were, below were slave with except Missouri.
Missouri Compromise
States were given the choice, to vote, whether they could be slave or free, intensifying violence and clashes across the country. What term refers to the states being given a choice?
Popular Sovereignty
Why did most Northerners oppose slavery?
Runaway slave who became an abolitionist.
Frederick Douglas
Abolitionists who believed in True equality and had an Abolitionist newspaper by the name of "The Liberator"
William Lloyd Garrison
A decision that allowed new territories in the Louisiana Purchase to decide whether they were slave or free territories.
Kansas - Nebraska Act.
When the southern states left the Union, forming the Confederate States of America. What term describes them leaving the country?
Secede/Secession
Party formed specifically for abolitionists and those who opposed the westward expansion of slavery.
Republican
The main focus of the Union and Abraham Lincoln Before and at the start of the War. Most Americans were more scared of this than slavery.
Preserve the union/Country breaking apart.