People
Developed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
Missouri Compromise
This invention led to an increase in demand for labor to grow cotton, and therefore an increase in slavery
Cotton Gin
This reform movement fought for better quality in and access to public education
Educational Reform
supporting one's own region over a common country
Sectionalism
Supported popular sovereignty, or the idea that states should vote on slavery
Stephen Douglas
This law forced bystanders in the North to assist slave owners in recapturing their runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act 1850
The following ideas were beliefs of this group in the 1850s:
-The national government should ban slavery in the West
-Public infrastructure projects
-Strong National government
Republican Party
Dorothea Dix led this reform movement
Prison/Asylum Reform
The movement to abolish slavery
Abolition
Abolitionist speaker, advocated reform over revolution, started the North Star newspaper, friends with John Brown and most photographed person of the 1800s
Frederick Douglass
This court case allowed slave owners to do anything to their slaves without fear
North Carolina v. Mann
The following ideas were beliefs of this group in the 1850s:
The national government should not interfere with slavery
Strong state government
Popular Sovereignty
Democratic Party
A movement that sought the banning of alcohol
Temperance
Someone who dies for their beliefs
Martyr
Led escaped slaves to freedom using the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
This law nullified the boundaries between slave and free states set in the Missouri Compromise by leaving it up to voters
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Whigs that did not want to expand slavery (supported 'Free Soil') became
The Republicans
This document was written at the Seneca Falls Convention for Women's Suffrage and was inspired by the Declaration of Independence
Declaration of Sentiments
means 'before the war'
Antebellum
Wrote the Liberator, abolitionist
William Lloyd Garrison
The Fugitive Slave Act was part of the -
Compromise of 1850
A time when voters flocked to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska act, leading to riots and violence
Bleeding Kansas
This popular novel helped white northerners join the abolition movement
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The right to vote
Suffrage