Abolitionists
Former slave who worked as an editor of the Lone Star newspaper
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Many slaves who were traveling along the Underground Railroad would actually end up stopping and living at this location
What is Canada?
The southern states dependence on this cash crop lead to an increase in their slave population
What is cotton?
First successful English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
The Republican nominee in the Election of 1860.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Wrote a historical fiction book called Uncle Tom's Cabin to demonstrate the horrors of slavery
The group of people that had to be avoided in order to guarantee slaves were not kidnapped and returned to their masters.
What are Slave Hunters?
Putting the interests of the state or the region above those of the country as a whole leads to this.
What is Sectionalism?
Primary writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
The reason that the Democratic party lost the Election of 1860.
What was there were too many people running as Democrat and they split the vote?
Title given to those who wish to see an end to the practice of slavery
What is an Abolitionist?
The Northern states were considered this word which enabled and encouraged slaves to escape in this direction.
What are Free States?
Agreement to create the 36'30 parallel after admitting the states of Missouri and Maine into the United States.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name given to the first ten amendments of the Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
The first state to secede from the United States as a result of the Election of 1860.
What was South Carolina?
Former slave who renamed their self and famously spoke for women and black rights
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This law offered a bounty to those willing to hunt down slaves and return them to the south.
What are Fugitive Slave Laws?
Under which compromise was the state of California admitted as a slave state?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The branches of the United States government
What are Legislative, Judicial, and Executive?
The political party that chose to ignore the issue of slavery and focus on the constitution who chose John Bell as their candidate.
What was the Constitutional Unionist party?
Nickname given to Harriet Tubman due to her involvement in escorting a large number of slaves along the Underground Railroad
What is Moses?
Role held by those who helped slaves escape north along the Underground Railroad
What are "Conductors" of the Underground Railroad
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an attempt to use this concept to allow states to vote and decide whether or not slavery would be legal.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The number of colonies that had settled in America before the Revolutionary War.
What is Thirteen colonies?
Political candidate who had the most support from the deep southern parts of the United States.
Who is John Breckenridge?