Vocabulary
Someone who wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The former slave who was nicknamed "Moses" for her leadership on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The main way that people in the south made money and grew wealthy.
What is slavery?
The negotiation in 1850 that tried to keep the balance between slave states and free states equal.
What is the compromise of 1850?
The main way the North makes their money.
What is industrialization?
Someone who was used for forced labor without pay.
What is a slave?
The abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
In 1860 this entire group of states officially ceded from the Union.
What are the Southern States?
The plan to divide parts of the Louisiana Territory and allow citizens to vote on whether or not the the territory should allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What group did most northerners support during this time period.
What is abolitionism?
Joined by agreement or treaty.
what is confederate?
A former slave who could read and write very well.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The title that the southern states accepted after they ceded from the Union.
What is the Confederate States of America.
The result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is conflict and bloodshed?
The presidential candidate most northerners supported.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
To make something null or void.
What is nullification?
An abolitionist who gave the famous speech, "Ain't I a Women."
Who is Sojourner Truth?
The presidential candidate that the South did not want to win.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A compromise that tried to maintain the balance between slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The North's objective in fighting a war.
What is preserving the Union?
To give up power or territory.
What is ceded?
The act that stated any escaped slaves could be caught and brought back to their plantations.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The states that never officially joined either side of the Civil War.
What is Kentucky, Delaware, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia.
The two states involved in the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri and Main?
The agreement that made slavery illegal in the territory ceded from Mexico and split the Democratic party.
What is the Wilmont Proviso?