Abolitionists
This person was known for writing Uncle Tom’s Cabin to expose the cruelty of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Invented in 1793, this device made cotton farming more profitable and increased slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
This 1820 agreement kept the balance of slave and free states by admitting Missouri and Maine.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This new political party formed in 1854 opposed the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This state was the first to secede from the Union in 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This abolitionist published The Liberator and refused to moderate his tone.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This phrase described the South’s economic dependence on one crop.
What is "King Cotton"?
This compromise allowed California to be free and introduced popular sovereignty in new territories.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln’s opponent in the famous 1858 Illinois Senate debates.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
These seven states formed the Confederacy before Lincoln took office.
What are Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina?
This escaped enslaved person and author advised Lincoln to allow Black soldiers in the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This 1850 law made it easier to recapture escaped slaves in free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This law repealed the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This party wanted to stop slavery’s spread but wasn’t fully abolitionist.
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This man became president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Known for leading the raid on Harper’s Ferry, this man was executed.
Who is John Brown?
The belief in prioritizing the interests of one’s region over the country.
What is sectionalism?
This Supreme Court case declared that enslaved people were property and couldn’t sue.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
In the 1860 election, this party’s split helped Lincoln win.
What is the Democratic Party?
The Civil War began when Confederates fired on this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
This woman led over a dozen rescue missions via the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This territory became a hotspot for violence between pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
What is Kansas? (Bleeding Kansas)
This abolitionist fought against pro-slavery settlers in Pottawattamie, Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
This 1860 speech by Lincoln warned that the U.S. could not remain half slave and half free.
What is the House Divided Speech?
This justification was commonly used by Southern states for secession.
What are states' rights?