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An enslaved African American man who, along with his wife, Harriet, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom of themselves and their two daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, in 1857
Who is Dred Scott?
The first state to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860, following the election of Abraham Lincoln
South Carolina
The political party of Abraham Lincoln
What is the Republican Party?
A series of five laws passed in 1850 that settled the issue of the geographic reach of slavery within the Louisiana Purchase territories by prohibiting slavery in states north of 36°30′ latitude
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The abolitionist siblings who were early advocates of the women's suffrage movement
Who are the Grimké sisters?
The president of the Confederacy
A series of violent civil confrontations between 1854 and 1859 over the legality of slavery in the proposed state.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
The party focused on opposing the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States.
What is the Free Soil Party?
The attack on the Senate chamber in 1856 in which a politician was nearly beat to death in retaliation for his speech in which he fiercely criticized slaveholders.
What is the caning of Charles Sumner?
An American abolitionist, writer, and anti-slavery activist from North Carolina who published An Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World
Who is David Walker?
The Northern politician and lawyer who advocated for "popular sovereignty" and unsuccessfully ran for president in 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
The act passed in 1854 that created two new territories and allowed settlers to decide through popular sovereignty whether to allow slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The law passed in 1850 that required that all escaped slaves, upon capture, be returned to the enslaver and that officials and citizens of free states had to cooperate
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law?
Created in 1817 with the goal of removing the free Black population from America
What is the American Colonization Society?
A congressional proposal, introduced in 1846, to prohibit slavery in any territory acquired from Mexico as a result of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
The radical pro-secessionists in the South who advocated for the secession of slave states to form a new nation.
Who are the Fire-Eaters?
The unsuccessful raid on an armory in 1859 which terrified Southerners.
What is John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry?
The thing Southerners believed the federal government had violated which gave the South a reason to secede.
What are states' rights?
The ideology championed by Catherine Beecher that emphasized the ideal roles for women was being the keeper of the home
What is the cult of domesticity?
The American abolitionist, journalist, and social reformer best known for his widely read anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The enslaved African American woman who killed her own daughter and intended to kill her other three children and herself rather than be forced back into slavery
Who is Margaret Garner?
The event that resulted in the immediate declarations of secession by seven Southern states
What is the election of 1860?
The document that Northerners and Southerners debated over whether it was pro or anti-slavery.
What is the Constitution?
The former slave and Black abolitionist who initially advocated for a non-violent means of ending slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired on April 12, 1861.
What is Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina?