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Civil war
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Slave codes | laws that limit slave rights, give power to master of slaves to give harsh punishments and to control their slave in any way they want |
| Denmark Vessey | a male slave, he bough his own freedom winning the lottery. He held meetings to plan violent slave protest in SC. He and 34 others were hung for this conspiracy |
| Tariff of Abominations | tax on high imported duties for goods bough by Southern planters |
| Fredrick Douglass | an escaped slave and abolitionist. His masters wife taught him how to read and write |
| Classes of the Antebellum Soth | Planters, Yeoman farmers, poor whites, slaves |
| Underground Railroad | a method used to help move slave from the south to free territory in the US and Canada |
| Harriet Tubman | a runaway free slave that helped move over 300 people using the Underground Railroad |
| Missouri Compromise | |
| Compromise of 1850 | |
| John C Calhoun | |
| Nat Turner | |
| Henry Clay | |
| Wester-Hayne debate | |
| Dred Scott vs. Standford | |
| William L |