Unit 8 Civil War

4. A secret society that helped enslaved people escape the South and find freedom in the North and Canada.
5. An event in which John Brown brutally killed 5 pro-slavery gang members.
6. An enslaved man who lead an unsuccessful rebellion alongside 70 other enslaved people.
8. Someone who helped with the Underground Railroad.
9. Abraham Lincoln's plan to ban slavery in new states, but to allow it to continue in the South.
10. A law that used geography to decide if new states would allow slavery or not. New states above the 36-30 parallel would not have slavery; states below that line would.
13. A law that allowed new states to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery.
15. A crisis in which pro- and anti-slavery gangs fought one another to win the vote on whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.
16. A machine invented by Eli Whitney which removed seeds from cotton, and ended up increasing demand for slaves.

1. Abraham Lincoln's political party in the 1860 election, which was generally opposed to slavery.
2. A law that made it mandatory for law enforcement to arrest escaped slaves and return them to their owners. The law also created punishments for Underground Railroad conductors.
3. A failed attempt by John Brown to steal weapons and give them to enslaved people.
7. A meeting in which six Southern states agreed to follow South Carolina and secede from the United States and form the Confederacy.
11. An election in which Abraham Lincoln (Republican) beat Stephen Douglass (Democrat).
12. A Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that African Americans could never be US citizens, and that the government could not legally end slavery.
14. Someone who wanted to end slavery.