Vocabulary
During the Civil War, these were states on the border between the North and South that allowed slavery but did not secede.
What are the border states?
Most of the railroads in the United States were located here.
What is the North?
This enslaved African-American unsuccessfully sued for his freedom in a case that went to the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott?
True or False: As cotton production increased in the United States, slavery decreased.
False.
This law repealed the Missouri Compromise by declaring that popular sovereignty would decide if the territory from the Louisiana Purchase would be slave or free states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
To withdraw or break away from a nation or organization.
What is to secede?
A majority of the country’s plantations were located here.
What is the South?
In an attempt to arm slaves, this event saw an extreme abolitionist capture a U.S. arsenal in Virginia. He was captured, tried, convicted, and executed for his actions.
Who is John Brown?
Pro and anti-slavery clashed when they tried to sway the vote in an event known ___.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The party that Abraham Lincoln joined and then was nominated for in the Election of 1860.
What is the Republican Party?
This is putting the needs of one area of the country ahead of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
This side had a larger population.
What is the North?
The codename for Harriet Tubman along the Underground Railroad.
What is Moses?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, outlawed slave trade in the nation's capital, and established popular sovereignty in the territory gained from the Mexican-American War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
As part of the Compromise of 1850, this act helped slaveholders recapture runaway slaves. Northerners had to return runaway slaves to their masters. Many northerners hated and neglected this act.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A person who sought the end of slavery in the United States during the early and mid-1800s
Who is an abolitionist?
This became the most profitable crop in the south, thanks to an invention by Eli Whitney.
What is cotton?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This event repealed the Missouri Compromise by declaring that popular sovereignty would decide if the territory from the Louisiana Purchase would be slave or free states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The first state to secede from the United States.
What is South Carolina?
The trade of enslaved people among states of the United States
The total amount of states that seceded to form the Confederate States.
What is 11?
He was named president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This is the concept of having the people of the state vote whether they want to be a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
Shots were fired here on April 12, 1861, officially sparking the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?