People
Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which persuaded more people to become, especially Northerners, anti-slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Violent events between abolitionists and Pro-slavery in the Kansas/Nebraska Territory, straining tensions between the North and the South
What is Bleeding Kansas?
A party in early America that attempted to put an end to slavery
What is the Abolitionist Party?
Law passed that made running away as a slave illegal and required slaves to be returned to the slaveholders
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was a secret system of helping runaway slaves escape to the northern states
What is the Underground Railroad?
This person was an abolitionist that attempted to start an armed slave revolt in a Virginian town
Who is John Brown?
A slave rebellion of 200 slaves, who killed 55-65 people, in Southampton, Virginia , leading to southerners fearing more slave uprisings.
What is Nat Turner’s Rebellion?
believed in the non-expansion of slavery and comprised of Whigs, Northern Democrats, and Free-Soilers, in defiance to the Slave Powers
What is the Republican Party?
With this act, each state would use popular sovereignty to decide what to do about slavery. This act also developed 2 states
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This election of this newly-republican president greatly added to the tensions between the northern and southern states
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln
Successor of President Zachary Taylor. He helped pass the Compromise of 1850 by gaining the support of Northern Whigs
Who is Millard Fillmore?
This abolished slave trade in DC, made California a free state and made Mexican cession land open to popular sovereignty
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This party favored native born individuals over foreign born citizens
Who were the Nativists?
The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government, and allowed some western states to decide if they would be free states or slave states
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Anti-slavery book that was written that is considered to help lay the foundations of the Civil War
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Supreme court Chief Justice that ruled on the supreme court case in 1857 that declared no black person, free or slave, could become a citizen of the U.S
Who is Roger B. Taney?
This was a failed attempt by an extreme abolitionist to start an armed slave rebellion in Virginia
What is Harper's Ferry?
This group heavily opposed slavery in the newly acquired western territory, including the Mexican Cession
What was the Free Soil Party?
Protected escaped slaves and free blacks settled in the North, by giving them the right to a jury trial.
What were the Personal Liberty Laws?
An incident where two Senators got into a fight over anti-slavery speech,escalating tensions between North and the South
What is the Brooks Sumner Incident?
The Massachusetts Representative who was nearly beaten to death in the Senate Chamber by congressman Preston Brooks
Who is Charles Sumner?
This supreme court ruled that slaves are property and could not sue
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford ?
This anti-immigration party in the mid 19th century had an official name and this nick-name for the party
What is the Know-Nothing Party?
Proposed that slavery be banned in newly acquired land after the Mexican War; was turned down
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
A newspaper that was written by a former slave that became a prominent abolitionist
What is The Liberator?