| A | B |
|---|
| abolitionist | person who wanted to end slavery |
| Underground Railroad | abolitionists who secretly helped slaves reach freedom in the North |
| Fredrick Douglas | Afriacan American abolitionist escaped slavery & wrote an antislavery newspaper called the "North Star" |
| William Lloyd Garrison | wrote an anti-slavery newspaper, "The Liberator" in 1831 |
| Harriet Tubman | runaway slave helped over 300 slaves escape to freedom with the Underground RR |
| sectionalism | rivalry based on special interests of different areas of a country |
| popular sovereignty | people in each state should decide for themselves whether to allow slavery |
| secede | withdraw or break away |
| fugitive | run away slave |
| Missouri Compromise | 1820, proposed by Clay, Missouri admitted as a slave state/Maine as a free state/not in Louisiana Territory/settled issue for |
| Free Soil Party | political party 1848/strongly against slavery & its spread/Nominated Martin Van Buren candidate |
| Stephen Douglas | Jan. 1854 set up a government in Nebraska Territory / divide territory into 2 /Kansas & Nebraska |
| Compromise of 1850 | written by Clay 1850 (5 parts) California free state/divide Mexican Session into New Mexico & Utah/ Abolish slavery Washington DC |
| Fugitive Slave Act | 1850- Federal officers would be used to catch runaway slaves/people must help catch fugitives or be fined |
| Nat Turner | 1831- led slave revolt in Va/60 whites killed led to whites tightening control over slaves |
| Henry Clay | proposed the Missouri Compromise(1820) & the Compromise of 1850 |
| Jefferson Davis | once Secretary of War. 1861- chosen as President to the Confederate States of America |
| slave codes | laws that controlled the lives of blacks in the South before the Civil War |
| conductors | people who led slaves to freedom in the North by using the Underground RR |
| station | safe places along the Underground RR |
| Harriet Beecher Stowe | wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" in 1852 to show the evils of slavery |
| "Uncle Tom's Cabin" | book about a slave & his cruel slave owner/ unpopular in the North/Southerners objected to it |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | written by S. Douglas in 1854/ Nebraska Territory be divided into 2 areas/people would decide about slavery themselves /reverse of Missouri Compromise/North angry - South support |
| John Brown | abolitionist wanted Kansas to be a free state/May 1856 went to small town and killed 5 people/led to Civil War |
| "Bleeding Kansas" | the territory of Kansas was called this because of the bloody civil war |
| Dred Scott Decision | Scott was a slave living in Missouri (slave state) they moved to Illinois(free state) he believed he should be free in new territory/filed lawsuit/Supreme Court ruled against freedom |
| Abe Lincoln | Rebublican/Ran for Senate in Illinois in 1858/ran against Steven Douglas/felt slavery wrong but did not want to interfere |
| Republican Party | new political party formed in 1854/made up of Free-Soiler, Northern Democrats & anti-slavery Whigs |
