Causes & Compromises
This 1820 agreement was the first attempt at keeping the slave states and free states balanced.
Missouri Compromise
This was the network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
Underground Railroad
This party, formed in 1848, opposed the spread of slavery into the territories.
Free Soil Party
Which Kentucky senator pushed the Missouri Compromise and later the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
In this 1857 Supreme Court decision, this man was denied his freedom.
Dred Scott
Southerners often called the 1828 tariff this.
"Tariff of Abominations"
This man was an escaped slave who became a leading African American abolitionist?
Frederick Douglass
This proposed banning slavery in land the United States gained from the Mexican-American War.
Wilmot Proviso
Name the former slave who returned to lead more than 300 people to freedom and was a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
The federal arsenal located here was unsuccessfully raided by abolitionists in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave uprising.
Harpers Ferry
This South Carolina law was an attempt to get around paying the federal tariff.
Nullification Act
This antislavery newspaper, begun by William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, helped spread abolitionist ideas.
The Liberator
What violent conflict in Kansas between pro- and anti-slavery settlers became known by this in the press?
"Bleeding Kansas"
This first women's rights movement was held here, in upstate New York in 1848.
Seneca Falls
This party had evolved from the Whig party and also included other anti-slavery politicians.
Republicans
Arguably, this ended the Nullification Crisis when it was attached to the new, revised (lower) tariff passed in 1833.
Force bill
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe sold millions and increased Northern opposition to slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 brought this idea to the new territories to decide the issue of slavery.
popular sovereignty
He was apart of a group that murdered 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas, known as the Pottawatomie Massacre.
John Brown
In the Lincoln–Douglas debates of 1858, Abraham Lincoln’s main warning about the nation and the issue of slavery became known as this speech.
House divided
He resigned the vice presidency after failing to get President Jackson to repeal the tariff.
John C. Calhoun
A hiding place for runaway enslaved people was also known as this by Abolitionists.
station
He was the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Stephen Douglas
It's the document created at the first women's rights convention in 1848.
Declaration of Sentiments
This party split in the 1860 election, nominating two different candidates and ultimately handed Lincoln the victory.
Democrats