Sectionalism #1
(1830) Rebellion against slave owners by Nat Turner and other slaves. 56 people died.
Nat Turner Rebellion
States having rights to make decisions best for their state.
States' Rights
People choosing within their territory.
Popular Sovereignty
Non-violent disobedience such as not paying taxes.
civil disobedience
Book that depicted the evils of slavery and stirred public conscience of the North.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Belief that people were born with the inner sense to determine right and wrong.
transcendentalism
African Americans free from slavery but not racial prejudice.
free blacks
Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, formed a political party to oppose slavery.
Republican Party
Former slave and abolitionist, encouraged the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
Henry Clay’s last great compromise. Resulting in California becoming a free state.
Compromise of 1850
(1857) Dred Scott, a southern slave, was taken North by his owner and then back to the south. He sued for his freedom.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Let Southern slave owners hunt down slaves who escaped to the North.
Greater loyalty many Americans felt toward their own section of the U.S.
Sectionalism
(1859) John Brown, white abolitionist, launched a slave revolt at Harper’s Ferry.
John Brown'S Raid
(1858) Lincoln challenged Senator Stephen Douglas to debate about the spread of slavery.
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
(1854) congress passed law to allow settlers to decide to permit slavery or not.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Famous leader of transcendentalism.
Henry David Thoreau
Time period before a particular war, American Civil War.
Antebellum
Believed in slavery being wrong and fought to end it.
Abolitionists
(1853) author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
A vast network of people who helped fugitive slaves escaping to the North or Canada
Underground Railroad