Election of 1860
Republican who won the Election of 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Novel that depicted what life was like for the slaves causing Northerners to turn against slavery and Southerners to ban the book
Famous escaped slave who went back to the South to help many more slaves escape
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
One who wants to get rid of slavery
What is an abolitionist?
Number of people who ran for President in 1860
What is 4?
New political party that formed against slavery
What was the Republican Party?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Abolitionist who used violence to try to end slavery
Who is John Brown?
To leave the Union
What is secession?
State that first seceded because of the outcome of the 1860 election
What is South Carolina?
Law that allowed territories that were part of the Louisiana Purchase to decide the slavery question by popular sovereignty
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
River that slaves needed to cross to get to freedom before 1850
What is the Ohio River?
Slave who sued for his freedom but was denied it by the Supreme Court
Who is Dred Scott?
The journey from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic to America
What is the Middle Passage?
The nation that was formed by the states that seceded
What is the Confederate States of America?
Nickname that a western state received due to the fighting about the issue of slavery
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
The law that caused slaves to have to go all the way to Canada to be free
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
Senator who was nearly caned to death because he spoke against slavery in Congress
Who is Charles Sumner?
The power of the government comes from the people
What is popular sovereignty?
Candidate that believed that slavery was morally wrong, wanted to stop it from spreading, but would not interfere where is already existed
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Place of the weapons arsenal that John Brown attacked
Where is Harper's Ferry?
Reason that slaves were not educated
What are slave rebellions?
First and only president of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Before the war
What is antebellum?