In The Beginning
The South in the mid 1800's was......
The North in the mid 1800's was.....
What is:
a. had few large cities : mostly agricultural
b. a destination of immigrants: had most of the factories
Abolitionism
What is:
support for eliminating slavery
Who believed the federal government's power overruled the power of the states
southerners referred to the poor factor workers of the North as...............
What is:
The North
"wage slaves"
William Lloyd Garrison and Horace Greeley
spirituals............
What is:
vocal abolitionist who condemned slavery through the publication of a newspaper
songs slaves wrote about their condition
Republican Party
What is:
new political party opposing slavery formed in 1850's
Lincoln's view of slavery:
What is:
Believed the Declaration of Independence applied to all men
opposed the spread of slavery to new territories
would not interfere with slavery where it already exhisted
emancipation
What is:
the freeing of the slaves
antebellum
overseer
What is:
means "before the war"
the person the master put in charge of the slaves work
James Buchanan
Jefferson Davis
What is:
Won the 1856 presidential election
gave orders to prevent all efforts to resupply Fort Sumter
president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
Secession
What is:
the president of the Confederacy
southern states threatened leaving the Union, if Republicans won the election of 1860
How Lincoln won the 1850 election...
What is:
the Democrat's vote was split between two candidates
popular sovereignty
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is:
doctrine that settlers should decide the slavery issue for themselves
Law passed allowing settlers in western lands to decide for or against slavery
gang system
task system
What is:
system where slaves worked in large group for a set amount of work each day
system where slaves worked on a specific job until it was complete, then the rest of the day was theirs
Abraham Lincoln
What is:
lost a Senate election in Illinois after debating with Stephen Douglas: Republican president elected in 1860
Fort Sumter
What is:
place where the first shots of the Civil War was fired
North advantage in the Civil War:
What is:
had more industry and railroads
Harriet Tubman
What is:
Helped slaves escape on the underground railroad
Bloodshed in Kansas
John Brown
What is:
the 1854 act allowing settlers in western lands to decide for or against slavery for themselves was responsible for bloodshed in Kansas:
abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia
Stephen Douglas
Roger b. Taney
What is:
proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act with the affirmation of popular sovereignty
chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision
West Virginia
What is:
50 counties of a state that had chosen to secede formed their own government
Final destination...
Harriet Tubman
What is:
Canada was the final destination for the underground railroad
runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Frederick Douglass
What is:
leading black abolitionist that gave lectures against slavery; run away slave who started an abolitionist newspaper
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is:
The novel that helped to create a great rift between the North and the South, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
Alexander Stephens
Kansas - Nebraska Act
What is:
the vice president of the Confederacy (Confederate States of America)
proposed that popular sovereignty determine the status of slavery in two new western territories
Why was it illegal to teach slaves to read and write?
What is:
They were afraid that ideas of revolt would spread more quickly