Road to the Civil War

Abolitionists...

• Were mostly in the North

• Wanted to keep slavery

• Wanted to ban slavery

• Were in the South

A network of people and places that helped slaves escape the South.

• Freedom Train

• Underground Railroad

• Freedom Road

• Underground Train

A famous conductor on the Underground Railroad was

• Levi Coffin

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• Lucretia Mott

The Underground Railroad existed:

• in the entire country

• in just the North

• in just the South

Some Northerners didn't want to end slavery because

• they were worried that African Americans would take their jobs

• they benefited from slavery

• they owned slaves

This compromise created the invisible dividing line:

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine Compromise

This compromise created the free state of California

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine Compromise

This compromise created the free state of Maine

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine Compromise

This compromise created the slave state of Missouri

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

• Missouri Compromise

• Maine Compromise

Being loyal to your state instead of your country.

• Sensationalism

• Popular Sovereignty

• Secession

• Sectionalism