April/May DCA

A person who wanted to end slavery.

• Abolitionist

• Plantation owner

• Northerner

• Southerner

Two of John Brown's biggest contributions to the abolitionist movement were what?

• Raid on Harper's Ferry

• Underground Railroad conductor

• Abolitionist newspaper writer

• Wrote the 13th Amendment

• Bleeding Kansas

Abolitionist like John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas wanted an immediate and complete end to slavery in the United States.

• True

• False

The Underground Railroad was an actual railroad that took runaways to Canada.

• True

• False

The Underground Railroad assisted slaves to escape to the North and Canada, using "conductors," "stations," etc. And one of the biggest players in the Underground Railroad was Harriet Tubman.

• True

• False

This law made it illegal to assist runaway slaves. If caught helping a runaway, a person could be fined up to $1,000 or spend time in jail.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Runaway Slave Law

What was sectionalism?

• The SOUTH was sectioned off into slave and free states

• The country was divided economically, geographically, etc. and people in that "section" were loyal to the section not the country.

• The country was very united.

This section banned slavery.

• North

• South

This section believed the states had the right to secede.

• North

• South

This section believed states' rights were superior to the national government.

• North

• South