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?
Believed that God told him to kill white people in order to help put an end to slavery
Who is Nat Turner?
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?
Someone who is against slavery and fights to end it
Abolitionist
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?
Stated that 36 30 would determine if a new state would be a slave or free state. North of the line would be free, south of the line would be slave
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name given to abolitionist who published articles about ending slavery - later he was killed and his printing press thrown into a river.
What is the Lovejoy Murder?
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?
the feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force
What is Oppression?
the dramatic change in economies and cultures brought about by the use of machines to do work formerly done by hand
What is Industrial Revolution?
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?
Stated that anything north of the Ohio River was a free state and anything south would be a slave state
What is the Northwest Ordiance?
a proposal made in 1846 to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the United States as a result of the Mexican-American War
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
segregation