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Vocabulary
Abolitionists
Events Leading to the Civil War
Events Leading to the Civil War 2
100
rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by Constitution
What are states' rights?
100
a person who favors doing away with slavery
What is an abolitionist?
100
Compromise that divided the free and slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Novel that introduced the cruelty of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
tax on imports
What is a tariff?
200
an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves escape to the north and was a successful conductor on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200

People who went throughout southern states making speeches about secession.

What are fire-eaters?

200

What invention helped to increase slave labor?

the cotton gin

300

The income from the lease of every sixteenth section in the township

What is sixteenth section funds?

300
Led a failed raid on an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859
Who is John Brown?
300

1.divided the land from the Mexican-American war into  territories   2.slave trade abolished in Washington D.C.  3. Fugitive Slave Act revised 4. defused disagreement between free and slave states

What is the Compromise of 1850?

300

They opposed the expansion of slavery into the western territories of the United States and eventually became the Republican Party.

What are free soilers?

400
withdrawal from Union
What is secession?
400

Who was the abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

400

Impact of the Fugitive Slave Act

What is slaves who were arrested were taken back to their masters?
400

Bloodshed over the decision of Kansas to become a free or slave state.

What is "Bleeding Kansas"?

500
Storage place for weapons and ammunition
What is an arsenal?
500

Escape routes used to help enslaved people obtain freedom.

What is the Underground Railroad

500
Stated that settlers in Kansas and Nebraska would decide whether slave or free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Ruling of Dred Scott court case
not a citizen, property, congress couldn't prohibit slavery in any territory