NORTH
The North started manufacturing lot of products in factories starting in the late 1700's . Name one product.
Sewing machines, clothes, tools
What was the main crop that was grown on plantations in the South?
Cotton
He was known as the Civil War President elected in 1860
Abraham Lincoln
Starting in the late 1700's the North became Industrialized. What does the word industrialized mean?
To mass produce products by machines
Compromise of 1850
1850
Which state did the North get in the Missouri Compromise of 1820. It starts with the letter M
Maine
What state did the South get in the Missouri Compromise? It starts with the letter M
Missouri
Eli Whitney invented something that increased slavery in the South What was the name of his invention.
Cotton Gin
Many Compromises were made to keep peace before the Civil War What is a compromise?
To settle differences by each side giving up something and getting less than they originally wanted
Date Louisiana territory was purchased from France
1803
What state in the West did the North get in the Compromise of 1850?
California
As part of the Compromise of 1850 the South got the Fugitive Slave Act. Briefly describe what the fugitive slave act was?
It was a law stating that all people including Northerners had to help capture runaway slaves or face jail time or a fine.
He was a slave who sued his master's wife when his master died because he had lived in a free state with his master and felt he and his family are entitled to be free. What is his name?
Dred Scott
Many Northerners did not like the Fugitive Slave Act. What is a fugitive?
A person who runs away, sometimes from the law.
Missouri Compromise
1820
As part of the Compromise of 1850 slave trade was abolished in this part of the nation. This place is now the capital of the US where the white house is. What is the name of this place?
Washington DC
The North fought against the South in the Civil War. The North was called the Union Army and had a flag that represented them. The Southern army also had a name and a flag What was this called?
The Confederate
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book of short stories which educated people especially in the North about how badly slaves in the South were treated. What was the name of this book?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Before the war started many people in the North became abolitionist towards slavery.What does it mean to abolish something?
To put an end to something.
Mexican Cession purchase
1848
Name 3 states in the North that were free states during the Civil War and are still states today.
New York New Jersey Pennsylvania New Hampshire Maine, Vermont etc.
Name one state/ territory the South got as a Sovereign Slave Territory in the Kansas Nebraska Act of 1854
Kansas, Nebraska
He was the Southern Democrat who was pro slavery and won the Southern states against Lincoln, What was his name?
Breckinridge
Before the Civil War started the South seceded from the Union of the United States What does secede mean?
To leave, to no longer be a part of.
Year that the Civil war started and ended
1861-1865