Region that had economy based on plantations and slave labor
What is the South?
1820 agreement that kept the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The name of the network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom
What is the Underground Railroad?
Event involved pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashing in Kansas
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
Elected President of the United States in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Region that had economy based on industry and manufacturing
What is the North?
Compromise that admitted California as a free state and included a stronger Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The escaped slave and famous speaker who published “The North Star”
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The name of the violent act where a senator was attacked with a cane on the Senate floor in 1856
What is the Sumner-Brooks Caning?
Political party formed in the 1850s to stop the spread of slavery
This word means loyalty to a region rather than the whole country
What is Sectionalism?
Law, passed in 1854, that allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The name of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s novel that changed many Northerners’ views on slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Physically connected western cities rapidly during the gold and silver rushes
What are railroads?
African American who sued for his freedom but was denied by the Supreme Court
Who is Dred Scott?
The line that line divided free and slave states in the Missouri Compromise
What is the 36°30′ line?
Law that required citizens to return runaway slaves, even in the North
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The name of the woman who helped hundreds of slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Term that describes the idea that territories should vote to decide on slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
The name of the new nation formed by the seceded states
What is the Confederacy?
Year gold was discovered in California
What is 1849?
Overturned by the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Radical abolitionist who led the raid on Harper’s Ferry in 1859
Who is John Brown?
The name of the fort attacked by Confederate forces in 1861, starting the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
Elected President of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?