Westward Expansion Vocab. Flashcard

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Leader of a slave rebellion in Virginia, 1831; killed 60 whites.

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Nat Turner

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Radical white abolitionist; founded The Liberator and the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Prominent black abolitionist taught to read by a master's wife; escaped slavery and led abolition. Published The North Star.

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Frederick Douglass

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Book by Harriet Beecher Stowe about the harsh life of slaves; bestselling of the 19th century.

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Uncle Tom's Cabin

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Sarah and Angelina; sisters from a SC slaveholding family advocating for abolition and women's rights.

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Grimke Sisters

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Collection of 5 laws to address slavery: CA as free state, tougher fugitive slave laws.

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Compromise of 1850

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Right of residents to vote on slavery; majority wins.

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Popular Sovereignty

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Americans' belief in their God-given right to expand from the Atlantic to the Pacific and into Mexican territory.

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Manifest Destiny

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California's valuable metal discovery led 300,000 people to seek wealth.

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Gold Rush

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Amendment to military appropriations bill banning slavery in territories from Mexico during the Mexican War

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Wilmot Proviso