Slavery And Its Causes Flashcards
What law was passes that made it illegal to help escape slaves?
Fugitive slave law
What did abolitionists think?
They believed that slavery was sinful and against American principles.
Slaves where forcibly return to the south without trail why?
Cause of the fugitive slave law that was passed in 1850
Who where all leads of the abolitionist movement
Harriet Tubman
Fredrick Douglass
Sojourner truth
What was the idea that residents of a territory should decide the issue of slavery for themselves?
Popular sovereignty
Who wrote uncle toms cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The supreme court rules in the ____________ case that slaves were property and had no rights and that slave owner can take them anywhere they wanted.
Deed Scott
Who raid on harpers ferry and became a hero to abolitionists in the north?
John brown
What is secession?
Secede from the union
