Vocabulary
A negative opinion about someone without proof.
A lawyer from Illinois who was against slavery and became the 16th president of the United States.
Abraham Lincoln
Led by Nat Turner in 1831
Slave Rebellion
How many states were in the Confederate states
7
in 1820 Congress tried to end the quarrels over slavery by passing this Compromise
The Missouri Compromise
Someone who wanted to end slavery.
Abolitionist
Born into slavery, this abolitionist spoke out against the evils of slavery and for women's rights.
Sojourner Truth
on July 19, 1848 more than 240 people attended to discuss the constitution.
Seneca Falls Convention
The state Abraham Lincoln came from
Illinois
This law of 1850 required police in free states to capture escaped African Americans.
A secret route that escaping slaves followed to freedom.
Underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
in 1856 violence broke out between supporters of slavery this was referred to as
Bleeding Kansas
This state asked to join the United states as a free state.
California
In 1854 Congress passed this Act which allowed these two states to decide if they were free or slave states.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Equal rights to vote or to education
suffrage
Author of "Uncle Toms Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
1857 the supreme court ruled Dred Scott had to continue being a slave even though his owners lived in free territory.
How many states were free and how many were slave states by 1850?
15 free 15 slave
Southerners supported this, they believed all states had the right to choose to be free or slave states.
States Rights
to leave the union
seceding
Born into slavery, this abolitionist spoke out about slavery in many of his famous speeches.
Frederick Douglass
Abraham Lincoln was elected in this year
1860
State in which Sojourner Truth was born
New York
People believed that slavery was ___________ based on this important document to our government.
Unconstitutional