Slavery & Sectionalism
This 1854 law allowed territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state (kept the balance)
The Missouri Compromise
What caused population growth in urban areas?
An increase in factory jobs
This event marked the official beginning of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
This religious movement inspired Americans to improve society through reform
The Second Great Awakening
This event increased Southern fears of abolitionist violence in 1859.
John Brown's Raid on Harper's Ferry
This law required the return of escaped slaves from the North to the South
The Fugitive Slave Law
Mechanization reduced the need for this type of worker
Farm laborers
This battle was the bloodiest single day in U.S. history
The Battle of Antietam
This Woman's rights leader helped organize the Seneca Falls Convention
Elizabeth Cady Stanton/Susan B. Anthony
Why did Southern states secede after the Election of 1860?
They feared Lincoln would abolish slavery
Which compromise had the territories of Utah and New Mexico decide on slavery through popular sovereignty?
The Compromise of 1850
Who invented interchangeable parts and the cotton gin?
Eli Whitney
This transformed the war into a fight for human freedom
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Second Great Awakening encouraged people to do this for society
To act to save society
This crisis involved South Carolina challenging federal tariffs using states' rights.
The Nullification Crisis
Many Southerners believed the Missouri Compromise favored the North because it gave them more...
free territory
This manufacturing innovation allowed standardized parts to be easily replaced
Interchangeable parts
Why did Lincoln wait until after a Union Victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation?
He did not want it to seem like a desperate move
The Declaration of Sentiments was written at this convention
The Seneca Falls Convention
This invention increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South
Would people in Boston, Massachusetts support or oppose the Fugitive Slave Law?
Oppose
This system encouraged innovation through profit and competition
The free enterprise system
Name two impacts of the Emancipation Proclamation
-Change the purpose of the war
-Weakened the Confederacy
This leader of the Abolitionist Movement used his experience as a former slave to bring awareness to the evils of slavery
Frederick Douglas