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?
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?
Wrote an anti-slavery book that made more people support the abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
States can make their own decisions about things, instead of the federal government making the decisions for them.
What is states' rights?
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?
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?
the belief that states, not the federal government should make final decisions on things that affect them
What are states' rights?
War between two groups of the same nation.
What is Civil War?
Invention that sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves in the South
What is the Cotton Gin?
This was an abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
Which 2 states decided the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty? (voting)
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
a tax on imported goods that was good for the north and not good for the south
What is a tariff?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
The first and only president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
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 eleven southern states called themselves
What is the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?
Loyalty to local interests, customs of one's own region instead of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Nicknamed the Union.
What is the United States?