Key People 1
16th President of the United States. Outspoken opponent on the issue of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
Senator who gave a fiery speech against slavery; was beaten with a cane on the senate floor.
Charles Sumner
Band-aid #1; Missouri added as a slave state, Maine added as a free state, 36' 30 parallel.
Missouri Compromise
Runaway
Fugitive
Not allowed; forbidden.
Banned
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Man who beat senator Sumner with a cane.
Preston Brooks
Band aid #2; California admitted as a free state, Fugitive slave act, popular sovereignty in western lands, banned slave trade in Washington DC(but not slavery)
Compromise of 1850
The cancel; ignore
Nullify
Decisions about slavery made by the people; Part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Popular Sovereignty.
An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt; he was captured and hanged.
John Brown
Slave who tried to sue for his freedom.
Dred Scott
A law that made it illegal to help runaway slaves; slave hunters could go into free states and capture slaves; never fully enforced.
Fugitive Slave Act
Secession
Loyalty to ones region of the country, rather than to the nation as a whole.
Sectionalism
"The Great Compromiser"; wrote the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Henry Clay
A former escaped slave who led other slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
A novel revealing the evils of slavery to the Northern readers.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
One of two major political parties; supported slavery and states' rights.
Democratic Party
Fort in Charleston Harbor; the confederate attack marked the beginning of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
Supreme Court Justice who declared that slaves were property, not people.
Rodger Taney
Wrote the Kansas-Nebraska Act; ran for president against Abraham Lincoln.
Stephen Douglass
Proposed by Stephen Douglass; created Kansas and Nebraska as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a slave state or a free state through popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A person who dies for a great cause.
Martyr
Belonging to a period of time before the war, especially the Civil War.
Antebellum