Supreme Court ruling that declared slaves were not viewed as citizens but as property

John Brown led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, hoping to induce a slave rebellion.

Included California admitted as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Act

"Compromise of 1820" over the issue of slavery in Missouri. It was decided Missouri entered as a slave state and Maine entered as a free state and all states North of the 36th parallel were free states and all South were slave states.

a slave rebellion led by that took place in Virginia in 1831

a novel published in 1852 which portrayed slavery as brutal and immoral

(1856) a series of violent fights between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas who had moved to Kansas to try to influence the decision of whether or not Kansas would a slave state or a free state.

An abolitionist who attempted to lead a slave revolt by capturing Armories in southern territory and giving weapons to slaves, was hung in Harpers Ferry after capturing an Armory

(1811-1896) American author, she was an abolitionist and author of the famous antislavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.

the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union

A person who wanted to end slavery in the United States

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery

The term for people of a state being allowed to vote for laws.

A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders

The idea that individual states should be able to decide certain laws for themselves, rather than have to follow federal laws.

This is the term for taxes that are placed on goods imported from foreign countries.

Many people thought that this was necessary for the economic well-being of the South.

Many people left farms to move to these and work in factories.

This was the basis of the economy in the North

This is the term for a person who wanted to end slavery in the U.S. in the 1800's.

This eventually became the leading crop grown in the South.

American abolitionist. Born a slave on a Maryland plantation, she escaped to the North in 1849 and became the most renowned conductor on the Underground Railroad, leading more than 300 slaves to freedom.

Had a mixed view on slavery - While he did not agree with it morally, he chose to say he would leave it as it was in the South if it would keep the Union together.