Reform
What reform movement had the goal of ending slavery?
Abolitionist movement
What was the main issue between the North and South prior to the Civil War
slavery
This compromise brought Maine in as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
The words antislavery activist and violent would describe what abolitionist figure that we have discussed. (Hint: Harper's Ferry)
John Brown
What did we call the issue that developed due to the vast differences that developed between the North and South such as a difference in culture and economy?
Sectionalism
The right to vote, better job opportunities and the availability for higher education are all goals of what movement?
Women's Rights movement
This Supreme Court Case upheld the idea that slaves were not citizens
This Compromise was focused on keeping an equal amount of slave and free states.
Missouri Compromise
Uncle Tom's Cabin was written by
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The cotton Gin
What does the term suffrage mean?
Right to Vote
This was the home state of John C Calhoun and one of the first to talk about secession.
South Carolina
This Act that was part of the Compromise of 1850 showed that slavery was not close to ending naturally.
Fugitive slave Act
Like John Brown, this man used violence to fight slavery
Nat Turner
Which event showed that Pro and anti Slavery supporters were willing to use violence for their cause?
Bleeding Kansas
Where did a group of reformers meet in 1848 to discuss women's rights and present the Declaration of Sentiments?
Seneca Falls
Fort in Texas that was the site of an attack by Spanish forces on rebelling settlers
The Alamo
This Compromise allowed California to come in as a free state
Compromise of 1850
This person was a conductor of the underground railroad and helped hundreds of slaves escape north
Harriet Tubman
The idea that the people who live in the state decide if a state is slave or free.
popular sovereignty
idealistic movement that celebrated nature and the idea that humans could be good
transcendentalism
term for the belief that the the US should span the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts
Manifest Destiny
This act lead to violence in the mid-west and ended the precedent set by the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This escaped slave became a famous author and made speeches encouraging people that "without struggle there is not progress"
Frederick Douglass
What was the main issue between the North and South prior to the Civil War
Slavery