Vocab
People who wanted slavery to end
What is Abolitionists
Bans slavery in any new territory.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
Author of the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
Northern Democrat who supported popular sovereignty in the new territories.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
Another term for a city
What is Urban?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Constitutional Union nominee who avoided the topic of slavery.
Who is John Bell?
People who are okay with slavery in already established area, but not for expansion.
Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to vote if the territory would be a free or slave state. What is this called?
What is popular sovereignty?
This man led a group of men to massacre 5 citizens of Pottawotomie, KS
Who is John Brown?
Republican nominee who was against slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What is rural area?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Pro-slavery agitators in the Kansas territory.
What are border ruffians?
This law allowed owners to recapture escaped slaves.
This man sued his owners for freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
This state seceded after President Lincoln won.
What is South Carolina?