1820. Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' except in Missouri, where slavery was permitted.

Included the Fugitive Slave Act , banning slave trade in DC, admitting California as a free state, and allowing popular sovereignty in the Mexican Cession

1854 - gave the people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories the right to chose to be a free or slave state through popular sovereignty. Repealed the 36-30 line of the Missouri Compromise.

The concept that political power rests with the people who can create, alter, and abolish government. People express themselves through voting and free participation in government

.Slave from Southampton, VA that led group of slaves to kill their holders and families. He was executed on Nov.11, 1831. Slave states issue harsher slave codes as a result of this rebellion.

In 1800 he planned a slave uprising near Richmond. He was betrayed by other slaves. He and and his followers were executed.

United States abolitionist who published an anti-slavery journal (The Liberator)

An anti-slavery newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison. It drew attention to abolition, both positive and negative, causing a war of words between supporters of slavery and those opposed.

Movement to end slavery

The right to vote.

1848. A declaration modeled after the Declaration of Independence. It was written at the first women's rights convention and stated that "all men and women are created equal"; it also listed many items that the signers believed were injustices perpetrated by "man" towards women

A prominent advocate of women's rights, she organized the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention.

Key leader of woman suffrage movement

Theory that states have the right to declare a federal law invalid

considered the political system too corrupt and in the service of the slave South to be of use

a system of secret routes used by escaping slaves to reach freedom in the North or in Canada