Abolitionist
Leader in the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Abolitionist Movement
The movement to end slavery
What did the North and South disagree over?
The issue of Slavery
Sectionalism
Being loyal to only one part of the country rather than the whole nation
What is meant by bleeding Kansas
It was the violent outbreaks over slavery in the Kansas territory between the pro slavery and anti slavery forces
Helped escapes slaves find homes and jobs
Soujourner Truth
Violent abolitionist, believed that violence was necessary to end the evil of Slavery. Although the North supported the cause, they did not approve of the violent methods
John Brown
What was the Missouri Compromise?
The compromise to balance the free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
Popular Sovereignty
The people choose
Who created the Kansas Nebraska Act
Stephen Douglas
Escaped to NYC for freedom and spent his life writing and speaking out against slavery
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slave who murdered his master in an infamous slave uprising where they traveled through Virginia murdering White-Americans the group encountered
Nat Turner
What happened when Lincoln got elected?
The southern states seceded from the union
Antebellum
The period before the Civil War
Where did John Brown raid?
Harpers Ferry
Wrote Uncle Toms Cabin and what was the effect on public opinion
Harriet Beecher Stowe, influenced people to become abolitionists
Slave who sued for his freedom on the basis that his master brought him to a free state.
Dred Scott
What was Lincoln’s stance on slavery
He was indifferent but willing to adapt to change in the Union.
Self-Determination
The caning of Charles Sumner
White abolitionist who created the newspaper, the liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Sisters of a SC slaveowner, wrote an appeal to Christian women of the South to resist the "horrible system of oppression and cruelty"
Grimke Sisters (Sarah and Angelina)
What are the different parts of the Dred Scott decision?
1. Slaves were not considered citizens
2. Slaves were declared property and Congress could not deprive citizens of their property
3. The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional which meant slavery would be allowed everywhere
Missourians that crossed the border into Kansas and Nebraska territories to fraudulently vote FOR slavery as well as violent intimidate the anti-slavery population
Border-Ruffians
The Kansas Nebraska Act resulted in the creation of what political party?
The Republican Party