Uncle Tom

1
Uncle Toms Cabin

• Popular antislavery novel written by Harriet
  Beecher Stowe

2
Free-Soil Party

• Formed when presidential candidates in 1848
  election took no stand on slavery in the
  territories

3
Confederate States of America

• Formed in 1861 by states that had seceded

4
Dred Scott Decision

• Supreme Court ruled Congress could not ban
  slavery in any territories

5
The Liberator

• Newspaper founded by William Lloyd Garrison that
  called for immediate emancipation for slaves

6
Abraham Lincoln

• Earned a national reputation through a series
  seven debates

7
American Slavery As It Is

• Influential antislavery publication written by
  Angelina Grimke and Theodore Weld

8
Fort Sumter

• Attacked by Confederate forces to start the Civil
  War

9
Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Led to violent confrontations between antislavery
  and proslavery forces in Kansas

10
Missouri Compromise

• Retained balance between slave and free states

11
sectionalism

• A strong allegiance to a particular region of the
  country

12
Republican Party

• New party formed on an antislavery platform in
  1854

13
abolitionists

• People who worked to bring an end to slavery

14
John Brown

• Led a raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

15
Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Allowed settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to vote
  on whether to allow slavery

16
Preston Brooks

• Proslavery Representative who brutally attacked
  an antislavery Senator

17
Sojourner Truth

• Escaped from slavery and dedicated herself to the
  abolitionist and womens rights movements

18
South Carolina

• Voted to secede from the United States after the
  election of 1860

19
Compromise of 1850

• Five-point plan presented by Henry Clay and
  passed as separate proposals

20
Abraham Lincoln

• Stated in his First Inaugural Address that
  Southern states would not be allowed to secede