| A | B |
|---|
| Underground Railroad | Sytem of routes and hiding places for escaped slaves |
| William Garrison | Started the American Anti-Slave Society |
| Wilmot Proviso | Called for lands aquired from Mexico to be free |
| Dred Scott | Slave which sued for his freedom |
| Marytr | Someone willing to die for a cause |
| John Breckinridge | Lost the election of 1860 |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
| Abolitionists | People who wanted to end slavery |
| David Walker | Told slaves to revolt for their freedom |
| Forty-niners | People who went West looking for Gold |
| Popular Sovereignty | When people have the right to choose whether to have slavery |
| John Brown | Radical Abolitionsist who killed five settlers |
| Roger Taney | Judge during the Dred Scott case |
| Personal Liberty laws | Helped provide lawyers for slaves |
| Bleeding Kansas | Nickname given to Kansas |
| Preston Brooks | Attacked Charles Sumner in congress |
| four million | Number of slaves in America in 1850 |
| Eli Whitney | Invented the cottin gin |
| South | Part of country cottin was farmed |
| Four ways Slaves undermined the sytem | dragged heels, sick, destroyed eqipment, ran away |
| Four difficulties free blacks faced | jobs, segregation,discrimination,guardian |
| Compromise of 1850 | Cal. free, Mexico has popular sovereignty, stricter fugitive slave laws, slave trade banned |
