Slavery Divides the Nation
This group of people believed that slavery was an integral part of life.
What were southerners?
This abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Compromise of 1850 admitted this state as a free state.
What is California?
This group supported the migration of free blacks to Africa.
What is the American Colonization Society?
This is the technique of trying to effect change by using moral arguments.
What is moral suasion?
A proposed, but rejected, 1846 bill that would've banned slavery in the territory won from Mexico in the Mexican War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso??
This abolitionist was the first black woman to win a court case in America.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The Missouri Compromise added these two states to the U.S.
What are Main and Missouri?
William Lloyd Garrison founded this society in 1833.
What is the American Antislavery Society?
These laws counteracted the Fugitive Slave Act.
What are personal liberty laws?
This group of people still viewed free blacks as inferior.
Who were white northerners?
This abolitionist was a former slave who told others about his life as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The Freeport Doctrine occurred in this year.
What is 1858?
Angelica and Sarah Grimke worked with this abolitionist to fight slavery.
Who is Theodore Weld?
To withdraw. Southern states did this when Lincoln was elected.
What is secede?
This party supported the Wilmot Proviso. (Hint: ____, free speech, free labor, free men)
What is the Free-Soil Party?
Republicans nominated this abolitionist for president of the 1856 election. (Hint: Free soil, free labor, free men, _____)
Who is John C. Fremont?
This 1863 act mandated that all African American troops could join the Union Army.
What is the Militia Act?
By 1804, bringing any to any part of the U.S. from this continent was banned.
What is Africa?
This was an all-black unit led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw.
What is the 54 Massachusetts Regiment?
This person was known as the "Great Compromiser."
This abolitionist hoped to inspire local slaves to join a revolution that would destroy slavery in the south.
Who is John Brown?
This 1861 attempt to prevent southern states from seceding allowed slavery in all territories south of the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
This group of people started the abolition movement.
What are abolitionists?
This plan depended on gaining control of the river and cutting the south in half.
What is the Anaconda Plan?