Pre-Civil War Vocabulary

(1850) a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves, and would return them to their owners

1854 - Created Nebraska and Kansas states, gave right to be slave or free in those states.

She was freed from slavery and was for women's rights and the abolition of slavery.

Formal withdrawal of states or regions from a nation.

A part of this compromise was the Fugitive Slave Act and banning slavery in D.C. (Washington)

Abolitionist who published the "Liberator."

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but property.

Daughter of a slave owner who spoke out against slavery.

He published the "North Star" and was a leading abolitionist and advisor of Abe Lincoln.

A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that portrayed slavery as a great moral evil.

Belonging to a period before a war, especially the American Civil War..

(1859) an incident in which abolitionist John Brown captured a federal arsenal.

A political doctrine that held that individual states should decide to have slavery or not.

In this compromise,Missouri would enter as a slave state and Maine would enter as a free state.