Short Term Causes of Civil War
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe portrayed the harsh realities of slavery and turned many around the world against it.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This compromise made both Missouri and Maine states, and forbade slavery above the 36° 30' line.
Missouri Compromise of 1820
This armed rebellion was led by an African American preacher and killed over 50 white Americans.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This religious leader led the Mormon/LDS community out west to flee persecution.
Brigham Young
This religious movement believed in the imminent return of Jesus Christ.
Millerites/Adventists
This law was part of the Compromise of 1850, and required Northern states to return escaped slaves to their Southern owners or face punishment.
Fugitive Slave Law
This movement happened in 19th century America and led to a revival in religion, the formation of new religious movements, and various reform movements that sought to better society.
The Second Great Awakening
This was an informal system of paths and safehouses that led north and was followed by slaves escaping enslavement.
The Underground Railroad
This treaty led to the U.S. acquisition of a large portion of Mexican territory.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
This woman worked tirelessly to better conditions in facilities for the mentally ill.
Dorothea Dix
This was a failed slave rebellion led by abolitionist John Brown.
Raid at Harper's Ferry
The North and the South developed very differently in this sector, causing tensions.
The economy
These people were harsh slave owners and were given unruly slaves to make them more compliant.
Breakers
This territory was disputed by both the U.S. and Britain before a treaty decided to give most of the land to the U.S.
Oregon
This movement supported the limiting of alcohol consumption for moral reasons.
Temperance movement
This act jeopardized the Missouri Compromise by proposing the allowance of slavery above the Missouri Compromise line.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This woman was a famous abolitionist and suffragette who escaped slavery herself and gave the famous speech "Ain't I a Woman?"
Sojourner Truth
This man wrote an abolitionist newspaper called "The Liberator."
William Lloyd Garrison
This now state was an independent republic for almost a decade before being annexed by the U.S. as a slave state.
Texas
This transcendentalist writer wrote an essay called "Civil Disobedience," in which he states that people should resist unjust laws by refusing to follow them.
Henry David Thoreau
This event led to a boom in population in the state of California which would later go on to join the union as a free state.
California Gold Rush
This idea proposes that states should have power over what happens within their borders and not the federal government.
States' rights
This type of preaching was popularized in enslaved African American communities and focuses on the audience responding to the preacher during a service.
Responsorial
This now state was flooded by pioneers looking for gold in the 1840s and would later join the union as a free state.
California
This controversial preacher supported abolition as well as education for women and African Americans, and believed that complete faith in Jesus Christ would result in attained perfection.
Charles Grandison Finney