The Debate
Slavery Issues
Kansas Nebraska Act
Famous Figures
Vocabulary
100

To overstate the truth

What is exaggerate ?

100

A system that is linked together in some way

What is a network?

100

Fruits and vegetables

What is produce?

100

Painted pictures of Native Americans

Who was George Catlin?

100

A system of producing, using up, and distributing wealth

What is economy?

200

Allowed California to become a free state

What is the compromise of 1850?

200

Homes of people who hid the enslaved Africans 

What are stations?

200

Used by businesses to ship goods

What is the railroad?

200

Moses

Who was Harriet Tubman?

200

One who is fleeing from danger or being kept against one's will

What is a fugitive?

300

Developed the first successful sewing machine

Who is Issac Merrit Singer?

300

Made up more than half of the total exported products in the United States

What is cotton?

300

"The Little Giant"

Who was Stephan Douglass?

300

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?

300

A settlement of differences in which each side gives up something

What is a compromise?

400

Wrote the song "Oh! Susannah"

Who is Stephen Foster?

400

A person who helped free slaves by using the Underground railroad

Who is the conductor?

400

Power of the people to decide something

What is popular sovereignty?

400

Jefferson Davis

Secretary of State and President of the Confederate States

400

To get rid of something

What is abolish?

500

The law that helped slave owners recapture their runaway slaves

What is the Fugitive Slave Law?

500

Large farm

What is a plantation?

500

Uncomfortable feelings toward another person or group

What is tension?

500

Purchase a strip of land that made up New Mexico and Arizona

Who was James Gadsden?

500

Secret escape route

What is the Underground Railroad?