Worlds Apart
What was the major discovery that drew people out west?
What is gold?
What "peculiar institution" in the South became the major cause of the American Civil War?
What is slavery?
What free state joined the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise?
What is Maine?
What did the Republicans think about slavery in the territories?
Republicans were strongly against slavery spreading to the new territories.
What is the name of the idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them.
What are States' Rights?
What were the differences between the economies of the North and South?
The South's economy was agricultural, or based on farming. The North's economy was industrial, or based on manufacturing, factories and businesses.
In what section of the country did David Wilmot want slavery to be prohibited?
What were the territories known as the Mexican Cession?
What was Dred Scott's argument before the Supreme Court?
Dred Scott argued that because he was taken from a slave state to a free state to live, he should be free.
Why did some Southerners want their states to withdraw from the Union?
They believed secession was the only way to protect the institution of slavery.
What is the name of the idea that people who live in a place should have the right to make decisions, or vote, on issues that will affect them.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What were the major crops of the South?
What are cotton, tobacco and sugar?
Name the two major political parties in the United States in 1856.
Who were the Democrats and Whigs?
Double Jeopardy- Which party later became the Republican Party?
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe and how did she increase tension between the North and the South?
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, which even as historical fiction, showed the brutality and inhumanity of slavery, angering Southerners.
What were Stephen Douglas's views on slavery?
He didn't feel slavery was wrong and thought that the citizens of states and territories had the right to vote, (popular sovereignty), on whether or not to legalize it.
What is a "fugitive"?
A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding, especially to avoid arrest, persecution, or injustice.
Give two reasons why there were there fewer farmers in the North by 1860?
1) Large-scale farming was not possible in the North due to climate and soil.
2)Manufacturing jobs drew more people to cities where factories were located.
Who was the first person to be elected as a U.S. President from the Republican Party?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Why did John Brown attack a U.S. Army arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown wanted to start a rebellion by arming escaped slaves to fight againsts slave owners.
Did the Southern slave states favor States Rights or Federal Rights?
The Southern states favored States Rights.
(The ability of individual states to overrule a law enacted by the federal government.)
Double Jeopardy- Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
What is an "abolitionists"?
A person who advocated or supported the end of the institution of slavery in the U.S.; they either supported the gradual or immediate end of slavery.
Why did southerners dislike tariffs?
Tariffs made prices of the many goods Southerners imported from Europe much higher.
What secret system, created by abolitionists, did enslaved people use to escape the South?
What was the Underground Railroad. Hiding places were known as "stations" and "conductors" guided runaways from station to station.
What did the Compromise of 1850 do?
The Compromise of 1850, authored by Henry Clay, was created to preserve the Union by appeasing both sides on the slavery issue.
The acts called for 1)the admission of California as a "free state," 2) provided for a territorial government for Utah and New Mexico, allowing popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery, 3) established a boundary between Texas and the United States, 4) called for the abolition of slave trade in Washington, DC, and 5) strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What did Abraham Lincoln mean when he said, "A house divided against itself cannot stand"?
President Lincoln meant that the United States could not exist or prosper if it continued forever divided on the issue of slavery or secession.
What is secession?
The act of formally withdrawing from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state from a nation.