People
former slave who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
a white abolitionist who raided an a weapons warehouse in order to led an attack on slave owners
Who was John Brown?
a machine that removes seeds from cotton fiber
What is the cotton gin?
relating to a city
What is urban?
relating to farm areas and life in the county
What is rural?
Invented the cotton gin
Who is Eli Whitney
slave who sued for freedom after living in a fee state: the Supreme Court ruled slaves were property, not citizens
Who is Dred Scott?
a person who is against slavery
What is an abolitionist?
loyalty to one part of the country rather than the whole nation
What is Sectionalism?
farming
What is agriculture?
Escaped slave and abolitionist who fought to end slavery through political action
Who is Frederick Douglass
place where the first shots were fired during the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
an organized system that helped slaves escape
What is the underground railroad?
President and leader of the Union during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
to break away from the country or state
What is secede?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
place in Virginia where John Brown led an attack
What is Harper's Ferry?
a book by Harriet Beecher Stowe that showed the cruelties of slave life
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
relating to production and manufacturing
What is industrial?
the idea that states have the right to make decisions about issues that concern them
What is state's rights?
former slave who became an abolitionist and women's rights activist
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Kentucky Senator responsible for the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850
Who is Henry Clay?
a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
a settlement of differences in which each side gives up something
What is a compromise?
a government in which people rule by their own consent
What is popular sovereignty?