Vocab #1
Time period before the American Civil War
What was the Antebellum?
African Americans free from slavery but not racial prejudice
Who were Free Blacks?
(1854) Congress passed a law to allow settlers to decide to permit slavery or not.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Slave revolt in Harper's Ferry, VA.
What was John Brown's Raid?
People choosing within their own territory
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Law that let slave owners hunt down escaped slaves in the North
Rebellion against slave owners by Nat Turner. 56 people.
What was the Nat Turner Rebellion?
Greater loyalty Americans felt towards their region of the United States (North, South, West)
What was Sectionalism?
Former Slave. Abolitionist, encouraged the Underground Railroad
Who was Frederick Douglass?
(1857) Dred Scott sued his owner for his freedom in the Supreme Court
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Vast network of people who helped slaves escape to the North
What was the Underground Railroad?
States having the rights to make decisions best for their state
What are States Rights?
Famous leader of Transcendentalism
Who was Henry David Thoreau?
Compromise resulting in California joining the union as a free state.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Critics of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, formed to oppose slavery
What is the Republican Party?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Lincoln challenged Senator Stephen Douglas to debate slavery
What was the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Believed slavery was wrong and fought to abolish it.
Who were Abolitionists?