Toward Civil War

protected the balance between slave and free states

• Black Codes

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo

a person who wanted to end slavery.

• abolitionist

• unionist

• confederate

• democrat

editor of the Liberator

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

• Frederick Douglass

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

a newspaper strongly against slavery

• Harper's Ferry

• The North Star

• The Liberator

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

an abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.

• Harriett Tubman

• Harriett Beecher Stowe

• William Lloyd Garrison

• Sojourner Truth

These two abolitionists traveled the North to speak at abolitionist meetings.

• Truth & Tubman

• Truth & Douglass

• Truth & Garrison

• Garrison & Douglass

a famous conductor from the Underground Railroad

• Brown

• Douglass

• Tubman

• Stowe

abolitionist whose slavemaster's wife taught him how to read

• Truth

• Tubman

• Douglass

• Stowe

to leave

• secede

• martyr

• fight

• arsenal

the slave trade would be illegal in Washington D.C. but made it easier for slave owners to catch escapees.

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Treaty of Paris