Resistance to Slavery
The Underground Railroad
This compromise determined that new states above Missouri would be free states, and states below Missouri would be slave states
The Missouri Compromise
He was born in Kentucky and would eventually become the 16th President of the United state
Abraham Lincoln
This attack on a Virginian town could have started a nation wide slave rebellion
Abolition
The town John Brown attacked in order to start a nationwide slave uprising
Harpers Ferry
This law was updated in 1850 and mandated that Northern States return escaping slaves to the South.
The Fugitive Slave Act
She helped over 100 enslaved people escape on the Underground Railroad. Her nickname was "Moses"
Widespread conflict in Kansas over the issue of slavery
Bleeding Kansas
A settlement of a disagreement where each side gives up something
compromise
When it was no longer safe to escape to the North, where did enslaved people flee to?
Canada
This constitutional law made it so that states could count a portion of their enslaved population towards representation
the 3/5ths compromise
He wrote about his experience as an enslaved person, and specifically talked about "the myth of the happy slave"
Frederick Douglass
1860
The expression of loyalty or support for a particular region of one’s country, rather than to the country as a whole.
Sectionalism
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote THIS fiction book about slavery in the South
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Popular sovereignty was the reason THIS STATE was torn apart by arguments over slavery
Kansas
After receiving a vision from God, He started a slave rebellion that resulted in over 50 people being killed
Nat Turner
In response to the Sack of Lawrence, this man killed 5 alleged slavery supporters in Potawatomi, KS
John Brown
A name for the practice of slavery in the Southern United States
The Peculiar Institution
The songs of enslaved people were an expression of frustration and sadness. What was this genre of music called?
spirituals
What were the three regions/sections of the United States?
The North, The South, The West
The creator of the cotton gin
Eli Whitney
As tensions about slavery rose across America, this man was beaten with a cane on the senate floor
Charles Sumner
The large farms where enslaved people were forced to work to harvest cash crops (like cotton)
Plantation