Bleeding Kansas
Nickname for Kansas when it experienced major violence over slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Man who was a radical abolitionist
John Brown
Lincoln
Name for the states who stuck together and didn't leave the United States (The North)
The Union
Codes that were made to police black people following the abolition of slavery
Black codes
Compromise that made slavery illegal above the 36 30 line
The Missouri Compromise
Event in which Brown & his sons killed a father and his 2 sons
The Pottawatomie Massacre
(The P-word Massacre)
John C. Breckinridge
What the Civil War was INITIALLY about
When black people went back to working on plantations for little pay
Sharecropping
Event in which someone was beaten with an object in the Senate
The Caning of Charles Sumner
the failed slavery uprising attempt made by Brown
The Raid on Harper's Ferry
The number of states that seceded following Lincoln's win before he took office
7
States who are part of the South but didn't leave the Union
Border states
Amendment that gave black men the right to vote
15th
Compromise in which states had popular sovereignty over slavery
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
Famous Black leader that Brown was friends with
Frederick Douglass
State that left the Union first
South Carolina
Period that was before the Civil War (hint: vocab word)
Antebellum
Supreme Court case that ruled segregation was legal
Plessy v. Ferguson
Who beat Charles Sumner with a cane?
Preston Brooks
Number of children Brown had
20
The nominee for the Democratic Party
Douglas
Famous Union War general (would later be the 18th president)
Ulysses S. Grant
White man who helped liberate a small part of Mississippi called the Free State of Jones