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Repeated violence between pro-slavery and anti- slavery forces on the border of Kansas
Bleeding Kansas
The name of a 363 mile waterway that was built in NY to connect the Hudson River to the Great Lakes in 1825.
Erie Canal
This person was a slave and preacher who led a slave rebellion but was caught and killed.
Nat Turner
Nickname of a tax passed in 1828 which was designed to help Northern industries but would hurt the rural South.
This law was passed in 1830 which authorized the president to remove Native Tribes from the Southeast to reservations in the West
Indian Removal Act
The Compromise in 1820 admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
A piece of legislation that was a package of 5 laws that dealt with expansion and slavery
The Compromise of 1850
This person became the most famous "conductor" of the underground Railroad and led hundreds of slaves to freedom
Harriet Tubman
A tax on imported goods to encourage people to buy domestic or local goods.
Tariff
The idea that the United States is destined to expand and spread its democracy or freedom across the entire North American continent
Manifest Destiny
This event was revolt organized by a slave, which led to killing over 50 white people.
Nat Turner's rebellion
The system where someone is owned by another person and forced to work for that person, and has no freedom or rights
Slavery
This person was a passionate abolitionist who helped the Underground Railroad. This person also led a slave rebellion, but was caught and killed.
John Brown
The time period before the Civil War (1830-1860)
Antebellum
devotion to the interests of specific region over those of a country as a whole
Sectionalism
This piece of legislation created Kansas and Nebraska as territories. The act allowed the people of each territory to decide weather or not to allow slavery
Kansas- Nebraska Act
A state's refusal to recognize an act from Congress, if it considered it to be unconstitutional
Nullification
An abolitionist leader who was born a slave and became one of the best intellectuals of the time.
Federick douglass
The act of being set free, such as from slavery
Emancipation
Where a political party gave government jobs to its supporters as a reward for victory in an election.
Spoils system
Journey taken by Cherokee after being removed for their land and forced to go to reservations in Oklahoma
Trail of Tears
Power of the people to vote if they wanted a territory to be free or slave holding.
Popular sovereignty
Supreme Court ruled in Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857) that blacks were not citizens and could not sue in federal court
Dred Scott (Decision)
An agreement or a settlement of a dispute when both sides agree to give up part of their demands.
compromise
A person who supports the ending of slavery
Abolitionist