A | B |
sectionalism | Intense loyalty to one's region of the country |
Tariff of Abominations | South Carolina threatened to secede from the Union because of this. |
Free-Soil | Political party formed to stop the spread of slavery |
Popular Sovereignty | Method used to determine the slavery issue in the new territories |
Missouri Compromise | Maine joined as a free state |
Compromise of 1850 | California joined as a free state |
Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed the ____ | Missouri Compromise |
Stephen Douglas | Illinois senator suggested the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Bloodly Kansas | The result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
John Brown attacked for ____ | revenge over the Sack of Lawrence |
Uncle Tom's Cabin | Book that supported the abolitionist movement |
Fugitive Slave Law | Required Northerners to return runaway slaves |
Dred Scott | A slave who sued for his freedom |
Abolitionists | Members of anti-slavery groups |
Underground Railroad | Secret organization helped slaves to escape to freedom |
Harriet Tubman | Escaped slave who went back to the South 19 times to help others escape on the Undergound Railroad |
Stephen Douglas | Proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act |
Harriet Beecher Stowe | Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Henry Clay | The Great Compromiser |
John Brown | Tried to start a slave revolt buy nobody joined. |
State's Rights | According to the South, slavery centered around this issue |
Harpers Ferry | Place where John Brown attacked. |