Important People
a Connecticut minister and crusader against the use of alcohol; wanted to protect society against "rum-selling, tippling folk, infidels, and ruff-scruff"
Lyman Beecher
Lincoln elected president; South Carolina secedes
1860
Abolitionists
members of the growing band of reformers who worked to abolish, or end, slavery; William Lloyd Garrison and Fredrick Douglass were these
slave state after the Missouri Compromise
Missouri
began in the early 1800s; a wave of religious fervor that stirred the nation
Second Great Awakening
wrote the most successful best-seller of the mid-1800s, Uncle Tom's Cabin; wrote about the injustice of slavery
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Southern states form the Confederate States of America; Confederate forces attack Fort Sumter; the Civil War begins
1861
the network of escape routes from the South to the North
Underground Railroad
free state after the Missouri Compromise
Maine
the plan that preserved the balance between slave and free states in the Senate; proposed by Henry Clay in 1820
Missouri Compromise
formed in 1816 by a group of white Virginians, worked to free enslaved workers gradually by buying them from slaveholders and sending them abroad to start new lives
American Colonization Society
Roger B. Taney ruled against the Dred Scott case and was chief justice during what year
1857
an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country
Sectionalism
People who traveled in armed groups called Border Ruffians which were from the state of
Missouri
contained the five main points of Clay's original plan; First, California would be admitted as a free state. Second, the New Mexico Territory would have no restrictions on slavery. Third, the New Mexico-Texas border dispute would be settled in favor of New Mexico. Fourth, the slave trade, but not slavery itself, would be abolished in the District of Columbia. Finally, Clay pushed for a stronger fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
an abolitionist who stimulated the growth of the antislavery movement; in 1831 he founded a newspaper called The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Abraham Lincoln won the Presidential Election of
1860
allowing the people to decide, usually by vote
Popular Sovereignty
the belief that the states had more power than the central government
States' Rights
took place in 1850; required all citizens to help catch runaways, punished them for helping them escape.
Fugitive Slave Act
two sisters from South Carolina who lectured and wrote against slavery
Sarah and Angelina Grimké
Republican Party was antislavery Whigs and Democrats joined forces with Free-Soilers to form this party in
1854
a person who dies for a great cause
Martyr
a new nation and government formed by the secession of 7 southern states (including South Carolina)
Confederate States of America
passed in May 1854 that allowed the residents to decide the legalization of slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act