Key Figures
The 16th president of the United States.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The slave that sued his masters family for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
The 15th president of the United States.
Who is James Buchanan?
A time period before a war.
What is antebellum?
The belief that slaves should be freed and sent to Africa.
What is African Emancipation?
He wrote his autobiography about his life as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The person is credited for helping 300 slaves escape from the South.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The last president of the United States that was not a member of the Republican or Democratic Party.
Who is Millard Fillmore?
The right for territories to vote on whether or not they would have slaves.
What is popular sovereignty?
The belief that slaves should be immediate freed.
What is immediate emancipation?
The person that wrote a book about slavery that sold more than 300,000 copies in the 1850s.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe? (Uncle Tom's Cabin)
The senator that wanted popular sovereignty in the new territories.
Who is Stephen Doulgas?
The 12th president of the United States.
Who is Zachary Taylor?
The speech given by Abraham Lincoln about division in America.
What is the "House Divided" speech?
The belief that slaves should be freed but then educated and taught how to be American.
What is Gradual Emancipation?
The Chief Supreme Court Justice that stated that black people are inferior to white people and have no rights.
Who is Roger Taney?
The abolitionist that believed that ending slavery could only be achieved through violence.
Who is John Brown?
The 14th president of the United States.
Who is Franklin Pierce?
The place where abolitionist captured a federal arsenal and slave owners but were eventually killed to captured.
What is Harper's Ferry?
The belief that slave owners should be paid for losing their slaves because slaves are property.
What is Compensated Emancipation?
The man selected to be the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The man that published the anti-slavery pamphlet called the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The 11th president of the United States.
Who is James Knox Polk?
The three things that made slavery in America different from slavery in other places/times in history.
What is 1. It was based on the color of skin. 2. Slaves were kidnapped from their home land. 3. Slaves could never earn freedom.
Abraham Lincoln's original view on what to do with freed slaves.
What is African Emancipation?