Vocabulary/Events
This word means to end something...like ending slavery
abolition, or abolish
Former slave who wrote and taught others about the horrible truth of slavery
Fredrick Douglas
Which religious group relocated to Utah for religious freedom, and to practice polygamy?
The Mormons
An agreement to allow Maine & Missouri as states to keep the free vs slave states even.
Missouri Compromise
This event led to a population explosion which caused Californina to quickly apply for statehood.
The California Gold Rush
This term meant that the people would decide the issue of slavery by voting
popular sovereignty
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
White abolitionist who launched a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry
John Brown
Allowed for California to become a state & the Fugitive Slave Law to go into effect.
Compromise of 1850
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo put an end to end to "THIS WAR" and settled the southern border with Mexico. Which war?
the Mexican-American War
secede means to
leave or break away from the country
Former slave who led over 300 slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
She organized the Seneca Falls Convention and wrote the Declaration of Sentiments
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Northerners were required by law to assist in the return of "slaves" to the south.
Fugitive Slave Law
Conflict and bloodshed from people moving into territories decide the free vs slave vote
Bleeding Kansas
What event was the beginning of the Women's Suffrage Movement?
The Seneca Falls Convention
Former slave who became an abolitionist and spoke at women’s gatherings (Ain't I A Woman? speech)
Sojourner Truth
This president accomplished Manifest Destiny by securing the Oregon Cession and Mexican Cession in just one term.
James K. Polk
What was the court case that ruled African American descendants were not citizens and could not sue in court because they had no rights?
Dred Scott Case
Escape route for slaves seeking freedom in the north
Underground Railroad
Name of the piece of legislation that led to the removal of 5 tribes to Indian Territory?
The Indian Removal Act
Led a slave rebellion that made it illegal to teach slaves to read and write
Nat Turner
He would be the first Republican candidate for President. He became famous after debating Stephen Douglas for a Senate position, which he lost.
Abe Lincoln
This 3rd piece of legislation opened up the old Louisiana Purchase territory north of the 36th parallel to the possibility of slavery if elected by popular sovereignty in 1854.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This one invention led to an uptake in slavery?
The cotton gin