Allowed slave owners to hire slave catchers to find and arrest runaways.

A plan that allowed the admission of California as a free state but also included the Fugitive Slave Act.

Organized the remaining territory into Kansas and Nebraska, but included Popular Sovereignty on the slave issue.

Inventor a machine called the cotton gin.

Led an attack that killed 57 people, among them his owner and the owner’s family.

Tried to lead a slave uprising in Virginia.

One of the best-known conductors of the Underground Railroad.

The Speaker of the House at that time and known as the Great Compromiser.

Asked the Supreme Court for his freedom, however, the Court said no.

Said that Dred Scott was a slave and not a citizen of the United States.

Applied to become a state in 1819.

A free state admitted to the Union about the same time as Missouri.

Seceded from the Union on December 20, 1860.

The 16th President of the United States.

Illinois Senator who was the writer of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Southern Democrats backed candidate that thought that the government should allow slavery everywhere in the West.

Mississippi senator elected president of the Confederacy.

The commander of Fort Sumter.

Sent Major Anderson a message on April 12, 1861 saying that he would fire in one hour if he didn't surrender.

Government storehouse in what is now West Virginia that was filled with guns.

A system of escape routes leading to free land.

A new country formed by the first seven states to secede from the Union.

Located on an island off the coast of South Carolina, its main purpose was to guard Charleston harbor.

Crops such as cotton, rice, tobacco, and sugarcane, to sell at market.

A large farm that grew a cash crop.

Popular cash crop at this time.

Removed the seeds from the cotton fibers much faster than any person could.

Gave many enslaved people the strength they needed to handle the miseries of life under slavery.

Laws that shaped the day to day lives of enslaved people.

People living in each territory would now decide for themselves whether or not to permit slavery

Hired people to watch the slaves as they worked and to whip them if they fell behind.

Led runaways from one hiding place to the next along the routes.

The resulting violence caused by popular sovereignty in Kansas where more than 200 people were killed.

When the two men traveled around Illinois and debated questions that were important to voters.