Vocabulary
a person who flees or runs away
What is a fugitive?
an agreement of a dispute
the dehumanizing practice of owning humans as property
What is slavery?
the act of bringing something back to life
What is a revival?
They created the Wilmot Proviso that would ban slavery from new territories gained from Mexico
Who is David Wilmot?
a person who dies for a great cause
What is a martyr?
The two main political parties within politics of the United States
What is republican and democratic?
primarily the 18th-19th century movement to end transatlantic slavery
What is Abolition?
To refrain from alcohol
What is temperance?
he believed that only states could say if slavery is prohibited or not
Who is John C Calhoun?
To make a formal withdrawal away from a state or alliance
short-lived but significant US political party that opposed the extension of slavery into western territories
What is the Free Soil Party?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
High school graduates who go to higher education usually for teaching roles
What is a common school?
What is California and New Mexico?
An armed conflict that occurs between people from the same country
What is the Civil War?
a series of five US laws passed to resolve territorial and slavery-related tensions following the Mexican-American War
a secret, informal network of routes, safe houses, and abolitionist allies that helped roughly 100,000 enslaved people escape
a powerful and influential preacher during the Second Great Awakening
Who is Charles Finney?
an idea to ban slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico during the Mexican-American War
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
To give reasons for or to defend
What is justify?
legislative act balancing the US Senate by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
an American abolitionist and social activist, the most popular conductor
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The movement that quickly followed the second great awakening
What is women's rights?
was a series of violent civil confrontations in the Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri