Resistance to Slavery
Laws/Compromises
Important People
Major Events
Vocabulary
100
This was a secret organization that helped escaping enslaved people flee to the North

The Underground Railroad

100

This compromise determined that new states above Missouri would be free states, and states below Missouri would be slave states

The Missouri Compromise

100

He was born in Kentucky and would eventually become the 16th President of the United state

Abraham Lincoln

100

This attack on a Virginian town could have started a nation wide slave rebellion

The Raid on Harpers Ferry
100
The movement to end slavery and free enslaved people

Abolition

200

The town John Brown attacked in order to start a nationwide slave uprising

Harpers Ferry

200

This law was updated in 1850 and mandated that Northern States return escaping slaves to the South.

The Fugitive Slave Act

200

She helped over 100 enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad. Her nickname was "Moses"

Harriet Tubman
200

Widespread conflict in Kansas over the issue of slavery

Bleeding Kansas

200

A settlement of a disagreement where each side gives up something

compromise

300

When it was no longer safe to escape to the North, where did enslaved people flee to?

Canada

300

This constitutional law made it so that enslaved people were counted in state populations, but were worth less than white people

the 3/5ths compromise

300

He wrote about his experience as an enslaved person, and specifically talked about "the myth of the happy slave"

Frederick Douglass 

300
The year Abraham Lincoln was elected

1860

300

The expression of loyalty or support for a particular region of one’s country, rather than to the country as a whole.

Sectionalism

400

Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote THIS fiction book about slavery in the South

Uncle Tom's Cabin

400

Popular sovereignty was the reason THIS STATE was torn apart by arguments over slavery

Kansas

400

After receiving a vision from God, He started a slave rebellion that resulted in over 50 people being killed 

Nat Turner

400

A series of political debates that took place in Illinois, but gained national attention

The Lincoln-Douglas Debates

400

A name for the practice of slavery in the Southern United States

The Peculiar Institution

500

The songs of enslaved people were an expression of frustration and sadness. What was this genre of music called?

spirituals 

500

What were the three regions/sections of the United States?

The North, The South, The West

500

The political opponent of Abraham Lincoln. He participated in debates all across Illinois

Stephen Douglas

500

As tensions about slavery rose across America, this man was beat with a cane on the senate floor

Charles Sumner

500

the practice of engaging in the same behavior or activity for which one criticizes

hypocrisy 

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