chapter 14 Flashcards
Slave owners were given legal permission to keep slaves under the It also said slaves were property
Dred Scott Decision
A person who thought slavery was wrong was called an
abolitionists
Thousands of people used the _______________ to escape slavery
underground railroad
Blacks and women were denied equal rights because of ______________
prejuidice
Territories were given the choice of having slavery under the ___________________ allowed Kansas and Nebraska to decided if they would have slaves or not
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The most profitable Southern crop was ____________
cotton
_____________________ was best known for speaking against slavery
Fredrick Douglas
Harriet Tubman was best known for running the ______________
Underground railroad
Southern states disliked ________________because he wanted no new slave states
Abraham Lincoln
_________________ was the first state to leave the union in 1860
South Carolina
Used to refer to states leaving the Union
secede
the name of the first convention held to discuss womens rights
Seneca Falls Convention
the name of the new country formed by the states that had seceded from the union
confederacy
The name of the compromise that allowed California to be admitted to the United States as a free state
compromise of 1850
the name of the compromise that divided that United States into free states and slave states
Missouri Compromise
