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Opposing the extension of slavery before the US Civil War. Free-Soil Of or being a US political party founded in 1848 to oppose the extension of slavery into US territories and the admission of slave states into the Union.

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He was a slave in Missouri who went to court to ask for his freedom. ... Two state courts made 2 opposing decisions so Scott went to the Supreme Court in 1857. Supreme Court Decision of 1857. Justice Taney decided 1.

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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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allowed citizens in the Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide locally whether to allow slavery. The act was modeled on the Compromise of 1850 but repealed both that compromise and the Missouri Compromise of 1820.

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were laws passed by the United States Congress in 1793 and 1850 to provide for the return of slaves who escaped from one state into another state or territory.

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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 with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause.

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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 first women's rights convention. It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman"

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were the first American female advocates of abolition and women's rights. They were writers, orators, and educators. They became early activists in the women's rights movement.

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

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the children of a community or district and that constitutes a part of a system of free

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

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the action of coming to live permanently in a foreign country.

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An artificial waterway built across New York state in the early nineteenth century, linking Lake Erie and the Hudson River. The canal opened trade between New York and the midwestern states and aided in the growth of New York City as a port.

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a prominent American abolitionist, author and orator. Born a slave, Douglass escaped at age 20 and went on to become a world-renowned anti-slavery activist.

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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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segregation "by fact", segregation that results from factors like housing patterns rather than law.

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