Words to Know
These people wanted to rid the country of slavery.
Who were abolitionists?
Bonus 100 if you can name a well-known abolitionist.
This section of the country used their farmland for cash crops, more so than food.
What is the South?
California wishing to be admitted to the U.S. as a free state led to this compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This is who decides on an issue (in our case: slavery) when popular sovereignty is used.
Who are "the people"?
This formerly enslaved woman brought many enslaved people north to freedom through the underground railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This section of the country was more industrial and had many factories that employed large numbers of immigrants.
What is the North?
This compromise led to the agreement that slavery would only occur below the 36’ 30 latitude line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This event erupted because of anger between pro-slavery forces and abolitionists and their disagreement over slavery in territories.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
South Carolina was the first state to ____________, or leave, the Union.
What is secede?
This type of agriculture was what the North was primarily involved in.
What is growing crops for food?
The U.S. maintained its balance of free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and ________ as a free state under the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
The way that Stephen Douglas felt slavery should be decided in territories that wished to become states.
What is popular sovereignty?
This is when one area of a place values itself more than its whole.
Bonus 200 if you name the 3 areas at play in 1860
What is sectionalism?
Bonus: West, South, North
Name a major crop of the South and one of the North.
What is:
South: cotton, rice, indigo, tobacco
North: corn, wheat, oats
This was a part of the Compromise of 1850 that northerners did not like, but southerners did. It related to southern “property.”
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
John Brown raided an arsenal with the intent to arm enslaved people to revolt against their enslavers. Where did this raid take place?
What is Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
Explain what Lincoln meant when he said "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Lincoln meant that as long as the country was at odds over the issue of slavery they would ultimately fail. This division would lead to problems and eventually have to change so the same rules applied to everyone.
Name one reason the North ultimately won the Civil War based on what you know about the North and South.
More railroad track; more industry to produce weapons & ammo; higher population; formerly enslaved people also were willing to fight for them; larger food supply
Explain how the Dred Scott case invalidated the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
The decision in the Dred Scott case invalidated these compromises because both of them allowed for the country to restrict slavery and according to Justice Taney, no law could be made that would ban slavery because that would be unconstitutional.
The Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people were “property” and as a result, banning the slave trade would infringe upon property owners’ rights.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?