unit 3 - expansion to civil war

This region had diversified industries

This regoin relied on slavery as its main source of labor

Allowed California to be admitted as a free state in return for a more effective fugitive slave law

The right of the people in a territory to vote on the status of slavery in their new state.

Famous conductor of the underground railroad

Person responsible for planning the raid on Harper's Ferry in which a group of men planned to attack the federal arsenal in order to start a slave uprising. Once captured and executed he quickly became a martyr for abolition.

Laws passed after the Civil War by southern governments.

Freed slaves ONLY in the Confederate States.

Southern states began to secede from the Union following this event.