People
She wrote a book that dealt with the cruelty of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
An African American man who escaped slavery and became a well-known abolitionist.
Fredrick Douglass
To leave or break away
secede
An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
He belonged to the Southern Democratic Party in the election of 1860.
John C. Breckinridge
An African American woman that escaped slavery and became well known for her speeches.
Sojourner Truth
One of the most famous conductors of the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
States that agreed to help each other.
Confederacy
This Compromise had five parts that included CA would become a free state and that slave trade would end.
Compromise of 1850.
Who becomes the President of the election of 1860?
Lincoln
Wealthy plantation owners that spoke out against slavery.
The Grimke Sisters
A slave that thought that he should be free because his master moved to a free state. The Supreme Court denied his freedom.
Dred Scott
The time period before the war.
Antebellum
A new law that erased the Missouri Compromise and allowed popular sovereignty to settle slavery issues.
Kansas Nebraska Act
The first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
He led a raid to Harper's Ferry against slavery and was caught by soldiers and hung.
John Brown
He belonged to the Republican party in the election of 1860.
Lincoln
The belief that the needs of one's own region are more important than the nation.
secionalism
This law stated that a runaway slave must be returned to their owner.
Fugitive Slave Law
Name one cause of the Civil War.
Economy-Slavery
States rights
Sectionalism
A white man from the North who became a famous abolitionist and started an antislavery newspaper.
William Lloyd Garrison
He belonged to the Northern Democrats in the election of 1860.
Stephen Douglass
The idea that people in each state should decide whether to allow slavery or not.
Popular sovereignty
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
Who was the Civil War between?
North and South