U.S. History: Slavery and Expansion

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Demarcation that divided state the would enter the union as slave holding states from free states after the Missouri compromise

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36' 30' Line

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An abolitionist and founder of the antislavery newspaper, the Liberator

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William Lloyd Garrison

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Someone who is against slavery.

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Abolitionist

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To acquire new land or new territories.

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Annex

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Law that admitted California as a free state; used Popular Sovereignty to determine slavery issue in New Mexico and Utah territory.

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Compromise of 1850

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Unsuccessful proposed to stop the secession of Southern states; Added slavery to the  United States Constitution.

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Crittenden’s Compromise

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U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford Decision

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Best known as the location of John Brown's raid on the Armory in 1859

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Harpers Ferry

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A violent uprising against an authority or Government

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Insurrection

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Part of the southern United States lying in the cotton belt, including South Carolina, Georgia, and the Gulf states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas; All so known as The Deep South

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Lower South