Unit 2 Key Terms

Doubled the size of the US overnight. Gave the US control of the Mississippi River and access to land west of the Mississippi.

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

• Gadsden Purchase

• Louisiana Purchase

• Mexican Cession

Movement started by the women's rights movement to prohibit the drinking of alcohol in the early/mid 1800s.

• Temperance

• Abolition

• Populist

• Prohibition

Where the women's rights movement was born in 1848 after women were not allowed to speak at the abolitionist convention.

• Buffalo, NY

• Albany, NY

• Seneca Falls, NY

• New York, NY

Violent abolitionist that led a failed raid on Harper's Ferry to try and arm slaves so that they would rise up against their masters. Loved in the North, hated in the South.

• John Brown

• Nat Turner

• Fredrick Douglas

• Grimke Sisters

Name given to the event where pro and anti-slavery groups violently clashed to try and sway the vote in a state that allowed popular sovereignty.

• Bleeding Nebraska

• Bleeding Kansas

• Bleeding Kentucky

• Bleeding Missour

Compromise allowing popular sovereignty, in which states get to choose whether they will be free or slave. Voided the Missouri Compromise.

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Slave Compromise

Law that made it a rime to help runaway slaves. Must be returned to their slaveholders.

• Runaway Slave Act

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

Compromise that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state, abolished the slave trade in Washington DC, and passed the fugitive slave act.

• Missouri Compromise

• Mississippi Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

Compromise that was created to keep a balance between free and slave states. 36-30 line. All states above are free. All states below are slave.

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

• Popular Soverignty

• Kansas Nebraska Act

Abolitionist that was born into slavery and became a preacher. Led a slave rebellion that killed over 60 whites before being captured and executed.

• Nat Turner

• Fredrick Douglas

• Harriet Tubman

• John Brown