Road to Civil War Part 1

strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves

• slave codes

• abolition

• Missouri Compromise

• Underground Railroad

_____________________ were reformers who wanted to abolish, or end, slavery.

• segregationists

• secessionists

• abolitionists

• communists

This Senator from Kentucky was known as the 'Great Compromiser'. He helped to shape the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.

• Stephen Douglas

• Henry Clay

• Frederick Douglass

• Dred Scott

This abolitionist was the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Harriet Tubman

• William Loyd Garrison

• Abraham Lincoln

white abolitionist that led the Raid at Harper's Ferry. He was hanged after being captured at Harper's Ferry.

• John Brown

• Preston Brooks

• Charles Sumner

• Frederick Douglass

True or False? Dred Scott won his court case when he sued for his freedom after his master took him to free states.

• True

• False

A person who led slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad

• Slavery
• Boom
• Driver
• Conductor

A secret system of routes and people who helped slaves escape

• Radical

• Train station

• Underground Railroad

• Abolish

A person who runs away

• Runaway
• Fugitive
• Homer Simpson
• Conductor

To put an end to.

• Boom
• Slavery
• Polish
• Abolish