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Vocabulary
Abolitionists
Slavery and the West
Challenges to Slavery
Secession and War
100
abolitionist
Who is a person who worked to abolish slavery?
100
Who stimulated the growth of the antislavery movement?
William Lloyd Garrison
100
What is an exaggerated loyalty to a particular region of the country?
sectionalism
100
What Supreme Court decision resulted in even more division in the country?
The Dred Scott decision
100
What was withdrawal from the Union called?
secession
200
Underground Railroad
What is the network of free African Americans and whites who helped runaways make their way to freedom?
200
Who wrote American Slavery As It Is in 1839?
The Grimke Sisters
200
What helped resolve the issue of whether new states would be slave or free states?
The Missouri Compromise
200
Which political party was founded in 1854 that joined with the Whigs, Democrats, and Free-Soilers?
The Republican Party
200
Who was elected president in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
300
nullify
What is to legally overturn federal laws that were considered unconstitutional?
300
Who was born a free man in North Carolina and wrote an impassioned argument against slavery?
David Walker
300
What was the name of the new political party that took a stand against slavery?
The Free-Soil Party
300
Who was an enslaved African American that sued for his freedom because he had once lived in a free state?
Dred Scott
300
Which state was the first to leave the Union?
South Carolina
400
popular sovereignty
What is allowing people to decide?
400
Who was a powerful speaker and edited an antislavery newspaper called the North Star?
Frederick Douglas
400
What was the plan that Henry Clay presented to settle the slavery debate?
The Compromise of 1850
400
Who was the presidential candidate who said a government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free?
Abraham Lincoln
400
What did the states who seceded call themselves?
The Confederacy
500
arsenal
What is a storage place for weapons and ammunition?
500
Who was born with the name Isabella Baumfree and gained official freedom in 1827, when New York banned slavery?
Sojourner Truth
500
What was the issue during the presidential election campaign of 1848 that involved California?
Where or not to extend slavery to California
500
Who did Ralph Waldo Emerson call a martyr?
John Brown
500
What began when Confederate forces attacked Fort Sumter in South Carolina?
The Civil War