Vocabulary
What is "Popular Sovereignty"?
Type of work the South relied heavily on for income (money).
This compromise saw Missouri added to the Union as a slave state, along with Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This word describes someone who opposes slavery.
This person helped slaves escape the south on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
What is compromise?
Type of work the North relied on for income (money).
What is industry/production?
This compromise saw California added as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This is one way individuals fought against the idea of slavery.
What is wrote books, petitioned the government, protest, or ran for government positions?
This individual was more "extreme" in his approach to abolition, resorting to violence and killing pro-slavery individuals.
Who is John Brown?
Law that required runaway slaves be returned to their owner, even if they were in a free state.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
What is the Cotton Gin?
This compromise saw the Northern Territory of the Louisiana Purchase divided into two, and the issue of slavery would be decided based on Popular Sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
This is one less intense, day-to-day way slaves would rebel.
What is break tools, work slowly, or produce poor work?
This individual supported anti-slavery politics and even helped women gain the right to vote.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
When a group withdrawals from the whole in order to become independent.
What is secession?
This crop was one of the cash crops the South relied on for income.
What is indigo/tobacco/sugarcane/rice/cotton?
This event saw pro-slavery "border ruffians" attack/burn down an anti-slavery town, which led John Brown to retaliate 2 days later.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
What is escape/runaway, burn down plantations, or kill white enslavers?
This individual filed an appeal to the Supreme Court for his freedom but ultimately failed.
Who is Dred Scott?
Act of officially ending or stopping something.
What is abolition?
What are textile factories?
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This was the path that led Southern slaves to their freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This individual was elected president which was essentially "the last straw" for the South, causing states to secede from the Union.
Who is Abe Lincoln?