Pre-Civil War Vocabulary

United States abolitionist and feminist who was freed from slavery and became a leading advocate of the abolition of slavery and for the rights of women.

• Angelina Grimke
• Sojourner Truth
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison

American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, "The North Star".

• Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth
• Angelina Grimke
• William Lloyd Garrison

She was a daughter of a slave owner and spoke out against slavery. She was a pioneer and leader promoting equality for all. One of the first female abolitionists.

• Frederick Douglass
• Angelina Grimke
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth

American abolitionist, journalist and social reformer. Editor of radical abolitionist newspaper "The Liberator", and one of the founders of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

• Angelina Grimke
• Frederick Douglass
• William Lloyd Garrison
• Sojourner Truth

A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe, published in 1852, that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil.

• Compromise of 1850
• secession
• Missouri Compromise
• Uncle Tom's Cabin

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state. All states North of the 36th parallel would be free states and all the South slave states.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

Attempted to compromise by passing the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, splitting up the Texas territory, and allowing Popular Sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas as states and gave the people in those territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty.

• Missouri Compromise
• Kansas-Nebraska Act
• Compromise of 1850
• secession

(1859) an incident in which abolitionist John Brown and others captured a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry, Virginia, in hope of starting a slave rebellion.

• Fugitive slave act
• popular sovereignty
• John Brown's Raid
• Dred Scott Case

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but property. It fueled abolitionist movement, and hailed as victory for the South.

• Dred Scott Case
• John Brown's Raid
• Popular Sovereignty
• secession