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Slavery and
Abolition
Vocabulary
8th Grade U.S. History
Mrs. Chen
Slave Codes
Slave codes were laws in the Southern states that
controlled enslaved people.
What were slave codes?
What do we call the laws in Southern states
designed to strictly control slaves?
What kind of slave codes were there?
Turner’s Rebellion
Turner’s Rebellion is when Nat Turner led a
group of followers on a three day rampage that
resulted in the death of 55 whites.
What was Turner’s Rebellion?
What do we call the slave revolt that frightened
whites and led to more severe slave codes?
How else did slaves resist their owners?
The Underground
Railroad
The Underground Railroad was a network of
free African Americans and whites who
helped runaway slaves make it to freedom.
What was the Underground Railroad?
What do we call the network of free blacks
and whites who helped slaves escape?
Who were some of the leaders of the
Underground Railroad?
Abolitionists
Abolitionists were free African Americans
and whites who actively fought to abolish
slavery in the United States.
Who were abolitionists?
What do we call the people who fought to
end slavery in the U.S.?
How did abolitionists work to end slavery?
Fugitive Slave Act
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required all
citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
What do we call the law that required citizens
to help capture and return runaway slaves?
How did Northerners and Southerners react to
the Fugitive Slave Act?
Sectionalism
Sectionalism is a loyalty to a particular region
of the country; it arose in the U.S. as a result
of the debate over slavery.
What is sectionalism?
What do we call a feeling of loyalty to one
region (section) of the country?
When did sectionalism become a major idea
in the United States?
The Missouri
Compromise
The Missouri Compromise admitted Missouri as
a slave state, Maine as a free state, and drew a
line to separate free and slave territory.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What do we call the compromise that
temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the
Louisiana territory?
Which state ended this temporary peace?
The Compromise of
1850
The Compromise of 1850 admitted California as
a free state but opened up the remaining land of
the Mexican Cession to slavery.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
What do we call the compromise that admitted
free California to the Union but opened more
land to slavery?
Who wrote the Missouri Compromise as well as
the Compromise of 1850?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Kansas-Nebraska Act abandoned the
Missouri Compromise and allowed settler of the
Kansas/Nebraska territories to vote on slavery.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What do we call the act that abandoned the
Missouri Compromise and opened more
territory to slavery?
What were the major results of the act?
Lincoln-Douglas
Debates
The Lincoln-Douglas debates between Abraham
Lincoln and Stephen Douglas gave Lincoln a
national reputation despite his loss to Douglas.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
What do we call the arguments around slavery
which gave Lincoln a national reputation?
What office was Lincoln running for?