Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
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In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
100
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
100
What was the sentiment (or feeling) about slavery in the North?
Against it.
100
What was the feeling about slavery in the south?
For it.
200
Who was the gentleman from South Carolina that believed in nullification?
John C. Calhoun
200
What part of the country benefited from tariffs? How so?
The north; tariffs on imported goods made them more expensive to buy so more people would then buy American-made goods.
200
Who "rode" on the Underground Railroad?
Runaway slaves.
200
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
Manufacturing (or factories.)
200
What was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
300
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederacy
300
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300
What did many from the North feel government's structure should be?
The Federal government should be strong.
300
What did many in the south feel the structure of government should be?
States should have equal or more power than the federal government.
400
Why would Harriet Tubman risk her life to return to the south nineteen times to help others escape to freedom?
She knew what it was like to be a slave and wanted to help others reach freedom.
400
Name at least two places that runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad headed to.
The North, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico.
400
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
400
Describe what popular sovereignty is.
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
400
Name at least three states that seceded from the Union by February 1861.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas.
500
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth were involved in what reform movement?
The Abolitionist Movement
500
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
500
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.
The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.
500
What were the benefits of the Compromise of 1850 for the North?(Name two)
California comes in as a free state
Slave trading ends in the District of Columbia
Texas agrees to stay within its current borders
500
Name two reasons the South was happy with the Compromise of 1850.
New Mexicao and Utah can decide slavery issue for themselves
Residents of District of Columbia can keep the slaves the currently own
The Fugitive Slave Law