People
Considered the "Conductor" of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Term used to describe cotton as the most important crop in southern America
King Cotton
Thr trial of this man declared blacks did not have the right to citizenship
Dred Scott
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
First state to secede from the Union
South Carolina
He led followers to Pottawatomie Creek in 1856 and murdered 5 people in order to protest slavery
John Brown
The idea that issues should be decided upon by the people's vote (including slavery)
Popular Sovereignty
Author of "The Liberator"
William Lloyd Garrison
Secret organization that took runaway slaves to the North
Underground Railroad
Military leader of the Confederate forces
Robert E Lee
Former slave who was an abolitionist and gifted as an eloquent speaker and also self-educated. Also looked for political ways to end slavery
Frederick Douglass
The concept that America was destined to expand across North America and beyond
Manifest Destiny
Another name for the American Party
Know-Nothing Party
It admitted California as a free state, left Utah and New Mexico to decide for themselves whether to be a slave state or a free state, defined a new Texas-New Mexico boundary
Compromise of 1850
Announcement which freed the slaves in the seceded states but no the border states
Emancipation Proclamation
The Mexican-American war was declared during this man's presidency
James Polk
Laws passed in the South aimed at keeping the Black population in submission
Black Codes
This treaty ended the Mexican-American War
Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo
Stated that slaves could not testify on their own behalf and slaves could be returned to their owners even if found in the North.
Fugitive Slave Law
This added a moral purpose to the war by saying those who had been killed had not died in vain
Gettysburg Address
Assassin of President Lincoln and what he saide when he landed on the stage
John Wilkes Booth and "Death to Tyrants"
This established any territory acquired after the Mexican-American War from Mexico be free
Wilmont Proviso
Location of the Confederate surrender ending the war
Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia
This legislation repealed the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
People who were totally against the war and denounced President Lincoln were called
Copperheads