The _____________________ created an imaginary line between the North and the South. Anything above the line was not a slave state, anything below the line was a slave state.
Missouri Compromise
100
The South surrendered to the North April 1865 at _________________.
Appomattox Court House, VA
100
A tax on imported goods
Tariff
200
This person was an abolitionist but was never a slave. He attacked Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
200
The South based their economy on ___________.
agriculture/farming
200
This Compromise allowed popular sovereignty to new territories.
Compromise of 1850
200
This battle was General Lee's last attempt to invade the North.
Antietam
200
A person who wants to put an end to slavery
Abolitionist
300
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
The South believed that ending slavery would....
Hurt their agriculture because they would not have people to tend to the crops.
300
Congress allowed popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska even though they were north of the imaginary line.
Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854
300
A war where a country is fighting with itself
civil war
300
Supreme Court decision that determined that slaves could not sue in federal court because they did not have citizenship rights.
Dred Scott Decision
400
This person was a conductor on the Underground Railroad after escaping from slavery. Worked as a nurse, spy and scout for the Union army during the war.
Harriet Tubman
400
What kind of government did the North want?
Strong federal government
400
This vocabulary phrase (2 words) gave people and states the right to make political decisions for themselves.
Popular soverignty
400
General Sherman strategy that included destroying all resources his enemy needed both to fight and survive.
Total War
400
People who guided escaped slaves to the next station or to freedom
Conductors
500
This person was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
500
This book____________ written by ___________ described the living conditions of slavery and upset people to lead to the Civil War?
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
This law stated that any slave that escaped to the North had to be returned to slavery. Many people in the North chose not to obey this law.
Fugitive Slave Law
500
The idea that states, not the federal government, should make their own decisions.