Differences between the North and South.
Laws that divided the North and South.
People and groups that contributed to the growing division.
Vocabulary
Events that led the the Civil War.
Political Parties
100
This region of the United States had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
100
This branch of government decides if a new state enters the United States.
What is Congress?
100
Slave owners were angry at this group's defiance of the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who were Abolitionists?
100
War between two groups of the same nation.
What is Civil War?
100
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South toward secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
100
This political party promised to leave the Union if Abraham Lincoln was elected President.
What are the Southern Democrats led by John Breckinridge?
200
This region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
200
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act, Proslavery and antislavery settlers came to vote for Kansas as a slave or free state. 200 people are killed over 2 years.
What is bleeding Kansas?
200
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
200
This cartoon is opposed to the expansion of slavery in this new Territory.
What is Kansas?
200
This Candidate for President believed his Constitutional Union Party could prevent a civil war by avoiding the issue of slavery.
Who is John Bell?
300
the name eleven southern states called themselves
What is the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?
300
The balance of slave and free states was important because it would determine which side would control this branch of government.
What is Congress, or the Senate?
300
People who were recruited by pro-slavery states to pr
event anti-slavery settlers from voting in Kansas.
Who were the Border Ruffians?
300
A list of beliefs or principles that a political party agrees to "Stand on."
What is a platform?
300
The Civil War officially began when Southern Forces attacked this fort in 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
Before the Republican Party, this early party opposed the expansion of slavery into new territories.
What is the Free Soil Party?
400
Slave states, represented with red and blue stripes, that did not leave the Union were called this.
What are the Border States?
400
This 1854 law allowed the settlers of 2 new territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular vote.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
These 2 Candidates are shown in this cartoon 
to be fighting over the West.
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas?
400
The policy allowed the people of a territory to vote on the issue of slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
This 1856 Supreme Court decision angered many Northerners because it meant that Congress could not ban slavery in any state.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
400
This was the main difference between the platforms of the Republican and Northern Democratic parties in the election of 1860.
What is the expansion of slavery into new territories?
500
Another name for the North during the Civil War, which represents keeping the United States together.
What is the Union?
500
This act strengthened the Abolitionist's cause because moderates in the North did not like that they would have to 
return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
500
This was an abolitionist leader who fought in Kansas and then led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia in an attempt to start a slave rebellion.
Who was John Brown?
500
This organization defied the Fugitive Slave Act and helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
In 1856 this Political Party was formed in response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the Republican Party?
500
In 1860 the once powerful nationwide political party is divided into sectional interests.
What is the Democratic Party?