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She wrote, Uncle Tom's Cabin, a book that exposed the truth about slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This election caused the South to secede.
What is the 1860 Election of Lincoln?
The idea that people living in a territory should decide whether that territory would prohibit slavery via a vote.
What is popular sovereignty?
The North and South held vastly different views on this practice.
What is slavery?
This made up more than half of the South's exports.
What is cotton?
This president was elected in 1860 causing South Carolina to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The firing at this Charleston Harbor was the last spark that formally began the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This Act caused a violent conflict known as Bleeding Kansas between Free-Soilers (anti-slavery settlers) and Border Ruffians (pro-slavery supporters from Missouri who crossed border to vote illegally in elections).
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This refers to the idea that the North and South were developing in isolation of one another and developing loyalty to their respective parts rather than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Seven out of eight of the military colleges in the country were here.
What is the South?
She was a public speaker who shared her ideas about abolition and women's rights as outlined in her famed speech, "Ain't I a Woman."
Who is Sojourner Truth?
Name given to these 5 Slave states that stayed in the Union: Missouri, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, West Virginia
What is a border state?
This law broke the compromise of 1820, which did not allow slaves above the 36-30 line. So many people thought that they could ignore the laws.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
James K. Polk provoked this war in order to gain territories in Arizona and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
The Southern economy was based on agriculture, whereas the northern economy was based on this.
What is industry?
He was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry that lead to him being sentenced to death. The North saw him as a hero/martyr and the South saw him as a traitor.
Who is John Brown?
11 Southern states did this before the onset of the Civil War.
What is seceded?
The Supreme Court's ruling (African Americans are not citizens) divided the nation and increased abolitionism in the north.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This compromise upset the North because it intensified the Fugitive Slave Act, which took away any chance for a slave to become free in the North.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The North has twice the density of this per square mile as compared to the South.
What are railroads?
An African-American social reformer, writer and statesmen who escaped from slavery and became a prominent leader of an abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Initially, Abraham Lincoln ran on the platform that he wanted to do this to slavery.
What is contain the spread?
This law upset the north and increased abolitionism in the north because this law was inhumane and it took away any chances for slaves to become free in the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state as well as created an imaginary line at 36°30′ that banned slavery in the territories above the line.
What is the Missouri Compromise/Compromise of 1820?
The South began to lose crucial votes in this as the population decreased.
What is the electoral college?