Political Parties
Their goal was to keep slavery out of the western territories.
Free-Soil party
He was a senator from South Carolina who'd once served as Vice President under Andrew Jackson.
John C. Calhoun
This woman wrote a famous novel about the horrors of slavery and was falsely credited with "starting this little war" known as the Civil War.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This legislation kept the amount of free and slave states equal and forbade the existence of slavery above the 36.30 degree line in the USA (except for Missouri)
Missouri Compromise
They battled antislavery forces in Kansas.
Border Ruffians
He was a Massachusetts senator dedicated to preserving the United States and avoiding a war. He also prosecuted the Knapp Brothers in the famous Salem murder of 1830.
Daniel Webster
Garrison founded this newspaper dedicated to the abolishment of slavery.
The Liberator
This would have banned slavery in any territories taken from Mexico.
Wilmot Proviso
When small military groups use surprised attacks and other methods to devastate their enemy.
guerrilla warfare
Their main goal was to keep slavery out of western territories and keep it from spreading elsewhere. Some of its members were Abolitionists.
Republicans
Henry Clay
Frederick Douglass wrote a slave narrative entitled:
The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
_________________gave people the right to create their own government
popular sovereignty
Actions against one's country
This enslaved man sued for his freedom arguing that he could not be legally taken into free territories and was therefore a free man.
Dred Scott
It required all citizens to help catch African Americans trying to escape slavery.
Fugitive Slave Act
This revision of the Missouri Compromise added five provisions that included admitting California to the Union, abolishing the slave trade in Washington DC, and introduced a strict fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
Someone willing to give up their life for their beliefs.
Martyr
This SCOTUS ruling stated that no enslaved people, or African Americans, had any Constitutional rights.
This novel was published in 1850 by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is about a woman who must bear the letter "A" on her chest at all times.
The Scarlet Letter
A bill that allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
To remove yourself or break away
Secede