Politics
What was the Missouri Compromise designed to do?
to maintain the balance of power between free and slave states
Give me three words that were used secretly in the Underground Railroad.
Station, Conductor, Station Master, Bundle of Wood, Stock Holder, Drinking Gourd
is the escaped slave who helped others flee via the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
to reduce or eliminate alcohol consumption?
Temperance Movement
runaway slaves must be returned to their owners, even from free states?
Fugitive Slave Act
loyalty to one’s region over the nation as a whole?
Sectionalism
People who wanted to abolish slavery?
Abolitionists
former slave and famous abolitionist speaker and writer also took an interest in the women's suffrage movement?
Frederick Douglass
gain the right to vote for women?
women's suffrage movement
set of laws meant to ease tension between free and slave states? California entered as a free state.
Compromise of 1850
allowing the people in a territory to vote on slavery themselves?
popular sovereignty
a network of secret routes and safe houses to help slaves escape?
Underground Railroad
leaders of the early women’s rights movement?
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
the first organized meeting for women’s rights in the U.S.?
Seneca Falls Convention
slaves were property and not citizens, even in free states?
Dred Scott Decision
South Carolina rejecting a federal tariff law?
Nullification Crisis
a violent slave revolt in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner’s rebellion
Speaking out against slavery, made a speech "Aint a Women"?
Sojourner Truth
A document that was very similar to the Declaration of Independence, addressing all of the items that women wanted to change?
Declaration of Sentiments
Why was the Fugitive Slave Act so controversial in the North?
it forced Northerners to support slavery by law
How did the idea of Manifest Destiny contribute to sectional tension?
Expansion raised the issue of whether slavery would spread west
What did these words mean:
Conductors
Bundle of Wood
Drinking Gourd
People who guided escaped slaves
Group of Escaped Slaves
North Star
Women's rights leader who helped get the right to vote?
Susan B. Anthony
a series of violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers in the Kansas Territory?
Bleeding Kansas
It gave settlers in Kansas and Nebraska the power to vote on slavery instead of Congress deciding.
Kansas-Nebraska Act