Civil War Causes
Define Abolitionist
Person against slavery
What did the South depend upon in the early to mid 1800s?
Cotton
Define Secede
To withdraw / to remove from
Who became President in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
Describe the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Required Northerners to return runaway slaves.
Why was Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, important?
Harriet's novel demonstrated the evils of slavery, which made Northerner's more passionate against slavery, while angering Southerners, as they believe the novel exaggerated how bad slavery was.
Define Popular Sovereignty
People rule / People vote
Describe Bleeding Kansas.
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 stated that peoples' votes in the territory would determine whether or not the states would be free or slave states, abolitionists and pro-slavery people clashed and over 200 people were killed.
How did Southerners react to the Election of 1860?
Southern states began to secede.
What did the Missouri Compromise of 1820 do to keep the balance of slave states and free states?
Made Missouri a slave state and added Maine as a free state
Why did the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 fail?
Because the people in the territories could not agree with the voting results, and there was violence between abolitionists and people pro-slavery
Why did Abraham Lincoln not send troops and weapons to Fort Sumter before the Confederates attacked?
He wanted to avoid war at all costs
What was the issue the US Supreme Court had to answer in the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Supreme Court Case?
Whether or not Dred Scott had the right to remain as a freedmen because he had escaped the South
What event started the Civil War?
Confederates attacked Union Troops at Fort Sumter April 1861
What was the Underground Railroad?
secret escape routes used by slaves to escape to the North
Define Civil War
War within a nation
What was the decision made in the Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Supreme Court Case?
Whether or not Dred Scott was a citizen
What was the long-term impact of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Everybody learned who Lincoln was!
What was the purpose of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850?
To balance the number of free states and slave states to prevent a civil war
Explain the key economic difference between the North and South
North relied on manufacturing and factories; South relied on farming.