Westward
Expansion
Expansion
Loyalty to one's own region of the country, instead of the nation as a whole
Sectionalism
The Missouri Compromise allowed for the entrance of Missouri into the country as a slave state, and the admission of this state into the union as a "free state".
What is Maine?
This fugitive slave was a leader of the underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What is an abolitionist?
A person who wanted to stop, or end slavery.
This President is responsible for the Louisiana Purchase?
Thomas Jefferson
This educated slave led an armed rebellion against white slave owners, eventually killing 55 white slave owners.
Nat Turner
During the Missouri Compromise, this line of latitude was drawn to mark all land north as free and all land south as slave. (hint: it's a number)
36'30''
This former slave wrote newspaper articles and gave passionate speeches against the practice of slavery. (published a newspaper called The North Star in Rochester, NY)
Frederick Douglass
This term means the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union
Seccession
Indian Removal Act
This was a famous Supreme Court decision, in which this man was ordered to return to his former slave masters, as he was seen as not seen as having the rights of US citizens, but rather recognized by the federal government as "property".
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The most controversial element of the Compromise of 1850, this law enraged several different groups of people in the North.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Creator of the newspaper, The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
One result of the War of 1812 was a boost in this?
(hint: pride in your country)
Nationalism
The passage of this law opened up large areas of land in the west and gave opportunities for early Americans to settle in western territories for little to no cost.
Homestead Act
John Brown's failed raid on this city helped motivate Southern states to form militias out of fear of massive armed slave uprisings.
Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
This state entered the Union as a free state due to the Compromise of 1850
California
Author of the anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is a countries plan for dealing with other nations?
Foreign Policy
This mineral was what drove many to move to California in hopes of sticking it rich in the late 1840's
Gold
A series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas and Nebraska would a slave state or a free state.
Bleeding Kansas
The Kansas-Nebraska Act established this practice for determining if a state would be slave or free?
Popular Sovereignty
One of the strongest white female abolitionists, she was also a women’s rights advocate
Sojourner Truth
This term means to free someone, as in free the slaves
Emacipaition