People
His court case determined that slaves were property, not people.
Who is Dred Scott?
The bombardment of this fort marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumpter?
A humongous southern farm.
What is a plantation?
To free someone from something.
What is to emancipate?
This amendment to the US Constitution outlawed slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
A Kansas preacher/terrorist who became an abolitionist martyr.
Who is John Brown
This port city at the mouth of the Mississippi is where many slaves were auctioned off after their arrival.
What is New Orleans?
The most important/lucrative crop grown in the South?
What is cotton?
This term describes an escaped prisoner or slave.
What is a fugitive?
This law made slavery illegal north of 36° 30` latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He promoted the idea of Popular Sovereignty.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
Slave states that did not secede from the Union were known as this.
What are border states?
Refers to the trade of goods and slaves between the Americas, Europe and Africa.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Someone who wanted to do away with slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This compromise admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He led an unsuccessful slave rebellion in which 60 white folk were killed.
Who is Nat Turner?
This US state is the only one to secede from another.
What is West Virginia?
The book that opened people's eyes to the evils of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The idea that people are the true "kings" of government.
What is popular sovereignty?
This compromise allowed for slaves to be included when counting a state's population.
What is the three-fifths compromise?