North & South
While the North thrived on industry, the South had this type of economy.
What is agriculture/agrarian? (or cotton economy)
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law?
This book was often given to slaves after being altered or taken apart to remove specific passages.
What is the Bible?
This southern state was the first to secede in December 1860.
Who/what is South Carolina?
What are tax/taxes/tariffs?
This "bloody" event heightened the debate between abolitionists and pro-slavery advocates.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This well known abolitionist published a magazine called "The Liberator" and argued that slavery was immoral and unbiblical.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The secession of the southern states came shortly after this man was elected president of the United States.
An argument used to justify slavery claimed is was a "necessary" this.
What is evil?
This novel, published during the 1850s, highlighted the evils of slavery to people in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This abolitionist wrote that the Christianity of slave holders was "bad, corrupt, wicked" and "hypocritical."
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Eleven states separated from the Union to form this country.
What is the Confederacy/Confederate States of America?
This woman helped slaves escape to the North through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This territorial law intended to ease the tension over slavery by allowing a popular vote to decide.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act/Law?
Some "Christian" slaveholders claimed that slavery helped slaves become christians and therefore was a "positive" this.
What is "good?"
To prepare for war, both sides enacted a draft law, known as this.
What is conscription?
Under the law in the South, slaves were not considered people, but this.
What is property?
This "decision" showed the problems with laws passed to balance slave and free states, when a black man was forced to be a slave after being brought into the North.
What is the Dred Scott (decision)? /Who is Dred Scott?
Abolitionists often used this book of the Bible to show slavery was wrong since it says humans are created "in His image."
What is Genesis?
Some confederate soldiers claimed they were fighting a "rich man's war" in response to this Confederate law that excluded some slave owners from fighting.
What is the "Twenty-Negro Law?"