Give Me Freedom
Ending slavery in the U.S. was the main mission of this movement.
What is the Abolition Movement?
Abolitionist leader and author who was formerly an enslaved person.
Who is Frederick Douglas?
This man won against Lincoln at the state level yet lost at the national level in 1860.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Requiring all citizens to return runaway slaves was the main purpose of this law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
What is Harper's Ferry?
The most violent of all abolitionists before secession occured.
Who is John Brown?
Writer of the abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator."
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Lincoln and Douglas debated to win this political race.
What is senator of Illinois in 1858?
This act put the issue of slavery to a vote and did not immediately admit any states into the Union.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the purpose of John Brown's raid.
Person whose pursuit of freedom through the court systems culminated in what is known as the worst Supreme Court judgement of all time.
Who is Dredd Scott?
Conductor of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Allowing residents of a territory to decide on the issue of slavery is known as this.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This compromise open the lands won from Mexico to slavery and banned the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Even if one crossed the Potomac there was still one more boundary to cross on this series of trail and safehouses on the way to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison.
What is the Liberator?
Authored a novel that depicted the horrors of slavery; popular in the North, not so much in the South.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Slavery should not expand was the stance of this candidate for the Presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Bye, bye, bye Missouri Compromise because this court decision says that Congress could not outlaw slavery.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
If West Virginia was established at the time of the raid then all enslaved people living there would have been able to use argument. The same Dred Scott used.
What is "living in a free land made me a free man?"
The fear that freed persons would take their jobs was the main reason some Northerners opposed this.
What is abolition?
This is the purpose of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
What is inform about the reality or horrors of slavery?
This event received its name based upon the violence that occured between pro and anti slavery groups before there could be an election on the matter.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Supreme Court case had this outcome for Dred Scott.
What is he lost?
The hanging of John Brown further did this between Northern and Southerners.
What is cause division or divide?