Abolitionists
Abolitionist who freed over 100 slaves using the Underground Railroad, secret routes to the north to escape slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
An act of Congress in which Maine would enter the Union as the free state and Missouri as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
People say that Abraham Lincoln's Election caused this.
What is the Civil War?
What are immigrants?
Businesses that produce goods mostly in factories
What are Industries?
Who is Frederick Douglas?
The Kansas Nebraska Act and the Fugitive Slave law were originally part of this Act of Congress.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
When Lincoln was elected, the Southern States did this.
What is secceeded from the Union?
An invention that increased the demand for slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
A large estate farmed by many workers
What is a plantation?
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which brought attention to the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
required that private citizens assist with apprehending (capturing) runaway slaves. Slave owners had the right to reclaim slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Decree from Abraham Lincoln that freed slaves in Confederate territory.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
When Pro-slavery and antislavery supporters rushed to settle in Kansas. The territory was torn by battles and massacres.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A supporter of extreme change.
Publisher and editor of abolitionist newspaper, the Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This act created two new territories, and allowed them popular sovereignty regarding slavery.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Abraham Lincoln was the first President to represent this political party.
What is Republican?
Court case which overturned the Missouri Compromise and ruled that African-Americans were not citizens, and that they were property of their owners
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford
A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest.
What is a Fugitive?
Led a major slave revolt.
Who is Nat Turner?
Allows the people in a territory to vote on whether they want slavery to exist or not in their state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The country tuned into these because both candidates were interested in running for President
What is the Lincoln Douglass Debates?
Who is John Brown?
The authority of a state to govern itself
What is Sovereignty?