The Antebellum Period

2. Douglass, born a slave and was the national leader of the abolitionist movement
4. Party, oldest voter-based political party in the US
5. When people favor the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole
6. Party,founded by anti-slavery activists in 1854 and led by Abraham Lincoln
8. Rights, the rights and powers held by individual US states rather han by the federal government
9. Slave Act, law that provided for harsh treatment for escaped slaves and those who helped them
10. 1860, due to the dramatic sectionalism tearing the country apart four political parties emerged
11. condition in which one human being was owned by another
13. Compromise, a band aid solution with states being admitted into the Union in free & slave pairings
15. States of America, 7 states who seceded from the Union
16. Scott, US slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state

1. when states have a right to invalidate a law which that state viewed as unconstitutional
3. of 1850, abolished the slave trade in th District of Columbia
7. withdrawal from the Union
12. Period, Period befor the Civil War
14. Kansas, another name given to the Kansas Territory because of the bloody violence there