Definition | Term |
Cash crop grown throughout the South in the antebellum period | |
Term for selling troubled slaves to harsher conditions in the Deep South | |
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this famous book the stoked the abolitionist flames | |
Led a slave rebellion in Virginia. Leads to tightening of slavery laws throughout the American South | |
American Colonization Society wanted to send freed slaves to ________ | |
Famous editor of the anti-slavey Liberator | |
Famous abolitionist who called for the immediate end to slavery | |
Famous woman aboltionist who gave the speech 'Ain't I a Woman?' | |
Former slave who escapes slavery and becomes a loud voice for abolition | |
Movement that did not want slavery to be extended to the territories gained from Mexico | |
Tippecanoe | |
Author of many compromises on slavery and the American Plan | |
Prominent Whig Senator from Massachusetts | |
The Webster Ashburton Treaty set the border for this American state | |
Major route for American westward movement in the mid nineteenth century | |
James Polk slogan about how to settle the Oregon Territory | |
River that was the subject of a border dispute with Mexico before the Mexican-American War | |
Leader of Mexican army | |
Created the California Republic during the Mexican American War | |
Treaty that ended the Mexican American War | |
Would have banned slavery in the newly acquired territories from Mexico | |
Lewis Cass was the leading spokesperson for this idea where the people would decide whether or not to have slavery | |
3rd Party that was formed to make sure that slavery stayed out of the newly acquired territories | |
Discovery of this led to the quick settlement of the California territory | |