Causes of the Civil War I
This region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
This region of the United States had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
A state that did not permit slavery
What is a free state?
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South toward secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves in the South
What is the Cotton Gin?
War between two groups of the same nation.
What is Civil War?
The idea that the people should have the power to vote to determine if the state would be a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This law was created to maintain the balance of free and slave states. After admitting Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state, it drew a latitudinal line on the map of the Louisiana Territory at 36o30' and declared that new states above the line would be free states and below the line would be slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
Loyalty to local interests, customs of one's own region instead of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This was an abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in a territory where slavery was illegal.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This was the nickname given to the time period after the Kansas-Nebraska Act which led people to become violent in the streets (and in congress).
What is Bleeding Kansas?
States can make their own decisions about things, instead of the federal government making the decisions for them.
What is states' rights?
This is a person who wanted to get rid of slavery completely.
What is an abolitionist?