The Pre-Civil War Era

This Republican won the election of 1860.

Agreement that ended the slave trade in Washington, D.C.

Harriet Tubman's nickname

Major crop of the southern states prior to the Civil War.

Man who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand."

African American Woman who helped many slaves escape.

Illinois Senator who proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Leader of a raid in Kansas that killed five pro-slavery men

The seceding southern states formed this nation in February of 1861.

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, published in 1852 (

Area in which Southerners wanted to extend slavery

This state was the first to secede from the Union on December 20, 1860.

Supreme Court Chief Justice during the Dread Scott case

Large Southern Farms

Area wanted to enter the Union in 1850, resulting in another compromise

Man who became president of the Confederacy.

The Compromise of 1850 made this state a free one.

Area that became a free state when Missouri became a slave state in 1820

This abolitionist led an attack on the U.S. arsenal at Harper's Ferry in Virginia in 1859.

Country north of the United States which was the goal of many escaping slaves.

Term referring to those people seeking to end slavery.

Paper printed by William Lloyd Garrison

Kansas received this nickname when pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in violence.

In 1857, this Missouri slaved sued for his freedom but lost at the Supreme court.

Idea that a state could outlaw or refuse to obey a law passed by congress

Nation of freed slaves started by the American Colonization Society.

Many escaping slaves used this to guide them to freedom when hey were traveling at night.