Economic
These were taxes that Congress lowered on goods purchased from Britain.
What are tariffs?
The issue of ______ was divided in the United States. The north believed one way and the south believed another.
What is slavery?
These states remained LOYAL to the United States.
What was the Union states?
This allowed California to be admitted as a free state as long as the Fugitive Law could be enforced.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This law said that escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners, even if they had reached Northern States where slavery was not allowed.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The SOUTH chose to buy good from this location because the tariffs (taxes) were cheaper.
What is Great Britain?
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe and told of all the cruelties slaves experienced.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
These states broke away from the Union to start their own country.
Who are the Confederate states?
This is the idea that the people of the states should be able to choose the laws that best fit their needs.
What are states' rights?
This was the decision made by the Supreme Court that ruled slaves were not citizens of the US and had no rights (political).
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
People in the north still mostly lived on farms, but people were starting to work here to make a living.
What are factories?
This person organized the Underground Railroad and helped 300 slaves escape to the NORTH.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This person was elected President of the new Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
This preserved the balance between slave and free states. Any states north of this boundary would be admitted as FREE. Any states south of the boundary would be admitted SLAVE.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This plan was to attack pro-slavery people with weapons from the arsenal at Harpers Ferry. It further divided the North and the South.
What is John Brown's Plan?
The south relied on these people to work their plantations to bring in more profit.
Who are slaves?
These people were AGAINST slavery? Hint: Starts with an "A"
Who are abolitionists?
Lincoln's main goal was this.
What is to keep the Union together?
This means to "break away."
What is secede?
This person said "If slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong....(But I) would do anything to bring about a war between free and slave states."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This part of the country did NOT rely on slaves to earn a profit.
What is the NORTH?
Explain how the Underground Railroad operated in detail.
1. Slaves escaped their owners and moved from place to place in hidden locations.
2. Conductors helped the slaves move along the "stations" to reach the north.
3. Harriet Tubman was the leader of the railroad.
Leaders in the South believed this.
What is that states should have the right to choose their own laws about slavery.
This act allowed people in certain areas to determine if their territory would be free or slave. Remember passing state/territory lines to vote!
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This person said "Each state...has the right to do as it pleases on ....slavery."
Who is Stephen Douglas?