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Fugitive slave who became the conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
An abolitionist who led a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry; believed that violence was necessary to end slavery
John Brown
A philosophical movement in America that was based on the idea that people can transcend the material world and focus on self-reflectionl
Transcendentalism
A transcendentalist who believed that people are born with an inner sense that enables them to recognize moral truths; a strong believer of civil disobedience
Henry David Thoreau
This school of art included artist Thomas Cole, who painted natural landscapes of New York
Hudson River School
A novel describing the cruelty of slavery, fueling support for the Abolitionist movement in the North
Uncle Tom's Cabin
the right to vote
suffrage
To kidnap sailors and force to join the British navy
impressment
Compromise: Missouri was admitted as a slave state; Maine was admitted as a free state; slavery was banned from the rest of the Louisiana territory, north of Missouri's southern border
Missouri Compromise
Compromise: California admitted as a free state; Fugitive Slave Act allowed Southern slave owners to hunt down slaves who escaped to the north; both freedmen and runaway slaves were affected; increased sectional tensions
Compromise of 1850
Law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850, allowed Southern slave owners to hunt down slaves that escaped into the north; freedmen and runaway slaves were captured; increased sectional tensions between the North and South
Fugitive Slave Act
Law passed in 1854 that allowed the people in the territory to vote for or against slavery; led to fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups, in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act
"Bleeding Kansas"
Supreme Court case: Slaves are property, not citizens; Congress did not have the power to outlaw slavery in territories; the Missouri Compromise is unconstitutional
Dred Scott v. Sandford
President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
First battle of the Civil War, initiated by the Confederacy
Fort Sumter
