Causes of the Civil War I
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage in the North and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Wrote an anti-slavery book that made more people support the abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
A state that did not permit slavery
What is a free state?
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
the belief that states, not the federal government should make final decisions on things that affect them
What are states' rights?
States can make their own decisions about things, instead of the federal government making the decisions for them.
What is states' rights?
A slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court in 1856 because he had been taken to live in a territory where slavery was illegal.
Who is Dred Scott?
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South toward secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
This region of the United States had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
Nickname for violence in a territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
War between two groups of the same nation.
What is Civil War?
The economy of the South was dependent on this crop
What is the Cotton?
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 region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
The name seven southern states called themselves after seceding from the Union.
What is the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?
He was the Great Compromiser.
Who is Henry Clay?
Nicknamed the Union.
What is the United States?