Georgia Studies Chapter 12

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which helped open eyes to the treatment of slaves

• Harriet Tubman

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

• Frederick Douglass

A tax on imported goods (like cotton or furniture from England)

• abolition

• revenue

• tariff

The path and shelters for escaping slaves; led by Harriet Tubman

• Underground Railroad

• Underground Tunnel

• Railroad to Freedom

Placing regional interests above the interests of the nation

• Regionalism

• Sectionalism

• Nationalism

Frontier land belonging to the United States but not yet formed into a state

• Interdependent

• Territory

• Sectionalism

Those who opposed slavery

• planters

• Republicans

• abolitionists

Dependent on one another for providing needs

• interdependent

• independent

• fugitives

States have certain rights that the federal government cannot violate; states can decide on matters not spelled out in the Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• States' rights

• Nullification

Declaring that a law is without force and not binding

• Secession

• Nullification

• Sovereign

The act of Southern states withdrawing from the Union in 1960-1961

• emancipate

• nullification

• secession