Abolition
What was the Abolitionist movement?
A movement to fight and end slavery in the United States
African American slave that returned to the south dozens of times to help slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
A series of laws that were passed in Congress to try to prevent disunion between the North and South in 1850
Compromise of 1850
Stephen Douglass
By helping slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
African American slave that escaped to freedom and became a leading abolitionist journalist by starting the newspaper the North Star
Frederick Douglass
What law was overturned by Roger Taney in the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
The Missouri Compromise
A candidate running for Senator of Illinois that argued that slavery should not extend to lands in the west
Abraham Lincoln
Who was John Brown?
A violent abolitionist who tried to lead a slave revolt in Harpers Ferry Virginia and was tried and found guilty of treason
A slave who became the first African American to try to sue for his freedom in the America Court System
Dred Scott
Part of the Compromise of 1850 that gave abolitionists more votes in the House of Representatives
California was a free state
The United States of America
Why did northerners oppose the Fugitive Slave Act?
Because they were required to help catch runaway slaves that had escaped to the north
Slave who mailed himself to freedom through the United States Postal Service
Henry Brown
The most controversial part of the Compromise of 1850
Fugitive Slave Law
What was Bleeding Kansas
Series of rioting, fighting and protesting between anti-slavery and pro-slavery citizens living in Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed
A network system of abolitionists and safe places for escaped slaves to stay on their journeys to freedom
The Underground Railroad
Slave who tried to lead a violent revolt in Virginia in the 1830s, leading to a paranoia and fear of slaves and African Americans across the country
Nat Turner
This law allowed for territories in the west to use popular sovereignty to decide if they would allow slavery in their lands
The Kansas Nebraska Act
Why was the North more prone to industrializing than the South in the 1800s and the south reliant on farming and slave labor?
because of the factory system in the north and the invention of the cotton gin in the south