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The Wilmot Proviso was a law proposed by David Wilmot used to ban slavery in the land acquired from Mexico in the Mexican-American War. The south held a greater representation in the senate and refused to pass this law twice. There was a final attempt to put it in the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. It was never passed and finally replaced with the Missouri Compromise

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Manifest destiny is the belief that it is America's destiny to move and expand westward. Owning the continent was believed as their God given right. The more west America moved the more land the southern farmers would be able to own. The three basic themes to manifest destiny would be the special virtues of the American people, the mission of the United States to civilize from west to east, and the irresistible feeling to fulfill their duty to civilizing the west coast.

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A New England anti-slavery paper written by William Lloyd Garrison. Over time The Liberator was able to get more subscribers so they could spread their words to a much larger audience. The Liberators original intentions were to stop chattel slavery.

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The Underground Railroad is not an actual railroad. It is a trail of people, houses, and waystations in order to assist runaway slaves by giving them safer passage up north. The safe houses and waystations would have special code in order to mark what houses were safe or not.

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Was an abolitionist, writer, and reformer. His most notable work was writing the abolitionist paper The Liberator. He joined the anti-slavery movement when he was 25 and later became a founder of the American Anti-Slavery Society.

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An abolitionist who was born into slavery. She managed to escape slavery then went back and managed to save another 70 families that once were also enslaved. To help these families escape she formed the underground railroad and went down in history.