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Dred Scott sued for his freedom.

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Boundary between Maryland & Pennsylvania.

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Supported the idea of building a railroad to the Pacific Ocean.

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Warned that a future court ruling would prohibit starts from banning slavery.

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Idea that political power belongs to the people who should decide on banning or allowing slavery.

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California was able to enter the union.

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A person who favors the abolition of a practice or institution.

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Secret routes & safe houses established

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First calling for a conversation to secede from the union

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On May 24, 1856 along the Pottawatomie Creek, John Brown and his men killed 5 pro-slavery men in Kansas.

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An effort by abolitionist John Brown to initiate an armed slave revolt in 1859.

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Antislavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.

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Allowed citizens in the Kansas & Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery.

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Sound Smart: The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 | History

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Made it a crime to help runaway slaves & it allowed officials to arrest those slaves in free areas.

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Sound Smart: The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 | History

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Settlement of a dispute between slave & free states.

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What Was the Missouri Compromise? | History