Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War II
Vocabulary
Abolitionists
100
The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.
What is slavery?
100
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
A person who is running away from the law.
What is a fugitive?
100

Known for penitentiary reform

Dorothea Dix

200
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Nickname given to a state where violence and bloodshed broke out after it was decided that citizens would vote on the slavery issue.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
200

Abolitionists sisters from the south

Angelina and Sarah Grimke

300

What state entered as a free state in the Missouri Compromise? 

Maine
300
This act allowed two midwestern territories to vote on the slavery issue. It led to violence in bloodshed, particularly in one state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300

This man's election to the presidency prompted SC to secede in 1860.

Abraham Lincoln

300

Wanted immediate emancipation with no compensation for slave owners

William Lloyd Garrison

400
This compromise stated that slavery would not be permitted in territory from the Louisiana Purchase above 36 degrees latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400

Who is seen as a terrorist for their involvement in Bleeding Kansas

Who is John Brown?

400

To withdraw formally from membership of a federal union, an alliance, or a political or religious organization.

Secede 

400

Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

500
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, banned the sale of slaves in DC, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500

Helped to rescue more than 70 enslaved people by using the Underground Railroad 

Harriet Tubman 

500
Disagreed with Garrison on issues like the Constitution. He was a slave and wrote the newspaper the "Liberator"

Frederick Douglass

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