A Dividing Nation Flashcards
Compromise
A agreement or settlement reached on each side of the debate
Secede
Withdraw formally from membership in a federal union
Abolition
An action or an act of abolishing a system
Racism
A person that labalize someone by there skin color
Segregation
An act or state of setting someone aside from a group
Reformer
A person devoted to bringing about reform in politics or society
Discrimination
Treating someone drifter end just because of there race or sex
Emancipation
Freeing someone from slavery
Underground Railroad
Network of save houses and routes for slaves who are trying to escape there owner
Fugitive
A person who escapes something or slow one
A slave who escapes there owner
Significants of the south Caroline bombing at fort Sumter
The bombing started the civil war
What lead to a violent struggle over slavery in Kansas
The north finally stood up to slavery and said. No more and fought the south there was blood
What where southern senators afraid of if there were more free slave states them slave states
They were scared because what if slaves started to rebel hey case they knew that half the state was free.
What was a result of the Kansas Nebraska act
There was a fight between the north and the south
What happened in February of 1861
Form the confederate states if America
What were the results of the Supreme Court decision of the Dred Scott decision
They sued him for his freedom
How did Missouri applying for statehood in 1819 challenge the Us law
It made no one happy because half of the state was free and half wasn’t
What impact did the book Uncle toms cabin have on the US
A novel that made many people angry in the north about slavery
What was made clear by the presidential election of 1860’
Lincoln won by only 40 percent of votes
Dred Scott
Facts
He got sued for his freedom
Also was a slave
Mumbet
First black women to file in court
And she court
Margaret Garner
She killed her own kids
a slaved women who tried to escape
Harriet Tubman
Escaped slavery
Went back to where slaves are and brought them to freedom
John brown
Was a abolition
Thought that the only way to stop slavery was by force
Frederick Douglass
Escaped slavery
Then came a leader of the abolition movement
How was the compromise of 1850 a victory for the south
Because they banned slavery in Washington DC
Also fugitive slave act
Abraham Lincoln said that ‘A house divided against itself cannot stand’ what did he mean by that
Of one half of the world is free slave and the other half isn’t there is bound to be a war
What was the impact of Abraham Lincoln as a result of the Lincoln- Douglass debate
He made a very big difference to slaves
What did the 36-30 parrallel identify
Imaginary line half way through Loisiana
North of the line slavery was banned
South if the line slaveholding was permitted
What was the result of the Missouri compromise
Missouri was a slave state and Maine was a free slave state
BUT NO ONE WAS HAPPY
Why did the fugitive slave act fail
Because people still broke the rules to save fugitives
