Causes of Civil War

This crop dominated southern plantations before the Civil War.

• cotton

• lumber

• tobacco

• rice

The movement to end slavery

• abolition

• fugitive

• secession

• compromise

Network of escape routes and secret houses used by slaves to reach the North

• Underground Railroad

• plantations

• secession

• slave codes

Famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Abraham Lincoln

• John Brown

Escaped slave and leader of the abolitionist movement

• Abraham Lincoln

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Harriet Beecher Stowe

Escaped slave who started a rebellion in Virginia; led to stricter slave codes

• Abraham Lincoln

• Nat Turner

• John Brown

• Thomas Jefferson

Famous book that first showed the horrors of slavery to Americans

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harry Potter

• The Hunger Games

• The Bible

Law that allowed for equal slave and free states in the US

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Compromise of 1850

Law that allowed new states to vote on the issue of slavery

• Compromise of 1850

• Missouri Compromise

• Dred Scott Decision

• John Brown's Raid

Term meaning to let people in a state decide whether slavery should be legal

• popular sovereignty

• abolition

• fugitive

• compromise