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The party leadership consisted of anti-slavery former members of the Whig Party and the Democratic Party.

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Dred Scott v. Sandford, 60 US 393, also known simply as the Dred Scott case, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court on US labor law and constitutional law.

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restriction of interest to a narrow sphere; undue concern with local interests or petty distinctions at the expense of general well-being.

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The Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed by the U.S. Congress on May 30, 1854. It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The Act served to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30´.

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The Fugitive Slave Law or Fugitive Slave Act was passed by the United States Congress on September 18, 1850, as part of the Compromise of 1850 between Southern slave-holding interests and Northern Free-Soilers.

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The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century enslaved people of African descent in the United States in efforts to escape to free states and Canada

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John Brown was an American abolitionist who believed armed insurrection was the only way to overthrow the institution of slavery in the United States.

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The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention.

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the first American female advocates of abolition and women's rights.

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William Lloyd Garrison was a prominent American abolitionist, journalist, suffragist, and social reformer.

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A reform movement is the kind of social movement that aims to make gradual change, or change in certain aspects of society, rather than rapid or fundamental changes.

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a school that is maintained at public expense for the education of the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of freepublic education commonly including primary and secondary schools.

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economic activity concerned with the processing of raw materials and manufacture of goods in factories.

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Immigration is the international movement of people into a destination country of which they are not natives or where they do not possess citizenship in order to settle or reside there, especially as permanent residents or naturalized citizens, or to take-up employment as a migrant worker or temporarily as a foreign

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The Erie Canal is a canal in New York that is part of the east-west, cross-state route of the New York State Canal System.

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Frederick Douglass was an African-American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and statesman.

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Nat Turner was an enslaved African American who led a rebellion of slaves and free blacks in Southampton County, Virginia on August 21, 1831, that resulted in the deaths of 55 to 65 white people

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a person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution, especially capital punishment or (formerly) slavery.

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Racial segregation, especially in public schools, that happens “by fact” rather than by legal requirement.

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occurring or existing before a particular war, especially the American Civil War.