Abolitionists
Who is John Brown?
The secret network of people who helped enslaved people escape slavery.
What was the Underground Railroad?
Law that required citizens to help in the capture and return of people suspected escaping slavery
What were the Fugitive Slave Laws?
The state Abraham Lincoln was from
What is Illinois?
The two parties the Democratic party split into
What is Northern and Southern Democrats?
Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
The event in Kansas where pro and anti-slavery people fought each other over whether slavery should be allowed or not
What was Bleeding Kansas?
The goal of the U.S. government when letting new states into the country
What is keeping the balance of free and slave states?
Abraham Lincoln's rival in Senate debates that helped him achieve popularity
Who is Stephen Douglas?
What is South Carolina?
Former enslaved person who wrote an autobiography and became a leading abolitionist
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Someone who wanted slavery to end
What is an abolitionist?
The deal that maintained the balance of free and slave states, let Missouri be a slave state, let Maine be a free state, and prevented slavery in all future states above the 36 30 parallel.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The number President that Lincoln was
What is 16th? (YOU DON'T NEED TO KNOW THIS)
The term when states leave the country
What is secession or secede?
Ran a popular abolitionist magazine called the Liberator
Who was William Lloyd Garrison?
The idea that states should be allowed to choose for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
The deal that overruled the Missouri Compromise and allowed for popular sovereignty to decide whether slavery would be allowed in two new states
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is he didn't want to allow it to expand to new states?
The way Abraham Lincoln planned to get Southern states to return to the country
What is negotiating with the state governors?
Wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin that convinced many Northerners that slavery needed to be abolished.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Pro-slavery people who crossed the border from Missouri to Kansas to influence the vote on slavery. Often used violence and intimidation
Who were Border Ruffians?
Supreme Court case that ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens and therefore had none of the rights guaranteed to citizens
What was the Dred Scott decision?
What is they thought he would make slavery go extinct?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?