Vocabulary
Unequal treatment based on race, religion or gender
Discrimination
What was the senator beat with while in a session of Congress?
A cane
Above this line, states were to be
Free states
California became what type of state?
Free
The name for the states in the South, after leaving the Union
The confederacy
If you are running away from something, such as slavery, you are considered a
fugitive
Abolitionist who killed 5 people
John Brown
This state was allowed to become a slave state
Missouri
New Mexico and Utah were what to slavery
Open to it (allowed to become a slave state)
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The name for the Northern States during the Civil War
The nickname for the people who crossed state lines to vote
Border Ruffians
This state was allowed to become free
Maine
Slave trading was abolished here
Washington D.C.
Name of rebellion that took place in Virginia in 1831, as a slave revolt
Nat Turner Rebellion
Network of escape routes from the South to the North
Underground Railroad
The term used for allowing the people to vote on the issue of slavery in these territories
Popular Sovreignty
The degrees of the line across territory?
36'30
This law was to be enforced more in the North
Fugitive slave law
Name of the slave who sued for his freedom
Dred Scott
This prohibited slavery to be added in any new territory gained after the Mexican American War
The Wilmot Proviso
The Kansas- Nebraska act overturned what previous law?
The Missouri Compromise
Name of the territory that the line was drawn in
Louisiana
The writer of this act?
Henry Clay
The first state to leave the Union
South Carolina