Causes of the Civil War I
This act caused Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An attack on this fort off the coast of Charleston, South Carolina began the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
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 month and place where the Revolutionary War began 86 years prior to the Civil War.
What is April and where is Lexington and Concord?
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?
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?
The economy of the South was dependent on this crop
What is the Cotton?
This was an abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
These 2 territories decided the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty (voting), in exchange for Southerners supporting Senator Douglas's railroad.
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
Nickname for violence in a territory.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
Leader of the last large-scale slave rebellion which led to the passage of a fugitive slave law.
Who is Nat Turner?
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?
After this, slavery could not exist in a state above the 36 30 line (AKA Mason-Dixon Line). Also, the Kansas-Nebraska Act repealed this.
Missouri Compromise