Dates
The American Civil War began in this year
1861
This person published The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Name two states that lay south of 36 degrees, 39 minutes north latitude
LA, MS, TN, NC, SC, GA, AL, FL
This law was an attempt to balance the power between the slave states and the free states
Missouri Comprise
This another name for the farm on which southerners live
plantation
The year Uncle Tom's Cabin was published
1852
wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name two of the three slave holding states north of 36 degrees 30 minutes north latitude
Missouri, Kentucky, Virginia
this law said that slaves could be returned to their owners no matter where they were found
Fugitive Slave Act
people who were against slavery
abolitionists
This book was published in 1852
Uncle Tom's Cabin
He was president right before Lincoln
Buchanan
This state was admitted as a free state when Missouri was admitted as a slave state
Maine
this law added to the Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850
The belief that the United States would eventually stretch from the Atlantic to the Pacific
This compromise was passed in 1850
The Compromise of 1850
He and his group attacked Harpers Ferry, VA
John Brown
This is the state where Frederick Douglass escaped to
New York
Garrison gave Douglass a job doing this
selling subscriptions to The Liberator
a secret system of people who helped slaves escape from the South to the North
Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass successfully escaped to the North in this year
1838
This former slave got a job with The Liberator
Frederick Douglass
This is where Douglass found work when he moved to New Bedford MA
shipyard
The Treaty of Guadelupe Hidalgo ended what war?
Mexican-American
this word means before the war
antebellum