Vocabulary
A person who wants to stop or abolish slavery.
abolitionist
Famous for the speech, "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
In The Missouri Compromise, this state became a FREE STATE.
Maine
This new law created which two new territories.
Kansas & Nebraska
This individual taught you everything that you needed to know to be successful on tomorrow's test.
Mr. Palmer
The time period before The Civil War
Antebellum
Southern, white women who spoke against slavery and helped teach slaves to read.
The Grimke Sisters
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this state to become a free state.
California
The Kansas-Nebraska Act erased the _________.
Missouri Compromise/Compromise Line
This individual wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
To separate from a nation in order to become an independent country.
secede
Wrote and published The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
This individual came up with both The Missouri Compromise and The Compromise of 1850.
Henry Clay
Due to the fighting over the issue of slavery, what nickname was given to Kansas after all the fighting?
Bleeding Kansas
This individual was a former slave who sued his owner for his freedom.
Dred Scott
Having success or being successful, usually by making a lot of money.
prosperous
A former slave who became an author and speaker about slavery.
Frederick Douglass
The Compromise of 1850 ended the slave trade in __________.
Washington DC
Due to the Kansas-Nebraska Act, people in the US Senate were angry. Two men were involved in a fight where one used a _________ to hit another man.
steel-tipped cane
This man, along with five of his sons, attacked a pro-slavery town and killed five men.
John Brown
A number of people, parties, or states that agree to help each other.
confederacy
This person was responsible for killing five men in the state of Kansas.
John Brown
The Compromise of 1850 created the Utah and __________ territories.
New Mexico
What year did the Kansas-Nebraska Act become law?
1854
This individual was knocked unconscious by Preston Brook's steel-tipped walking cane.
Charles Sumner