This was an American abolitionist who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.

This is the name of the book, published in 1852, that dramatically portrayed the lives of slaves in the American South, serving as not only a spark in the abolition movement but as a motivating factor of the Civil War.

This abolitionist was executed in 1859 after leading a failed attempt at armed slave insurrection at Harper's Ferry, Virginia.

This Virginia town was the site of an attempted slave revolt led by John Brown.

This term describes the movement to end the slave trade and emancipate American slaves during the 1800s.

This is the term used to describe a system of forced labor in which a person is considered to be the property of another person.

This was the withdrawal of eleven Southern states from the Union in 1860 that precipitated the American Civil War.

This is the political idea the individual states have political powers related to the federal government. It was a major cause of the Civil War.