Causes of the Civil War I
This act caused Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This compromise settled the issue of slavery for almost 30 years
What is the Compromise of 1820 or the Missouri Compromise?
A state that did not permit slavery
What is a free state?
This region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
The conflict over this territory eventually led to the outbreak of the Mexican American War
What is Texas?
the belief that people, not the federal government should make final decisions on whether slavery should exist in a new territory or state
What is popular sovereignty?
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?
This amendment was used by the Supreme Court to justify their decision in the Dred Scott case
What is the 4th Amendment?
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?
Nicknamed the Union.
What is the United States?
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 organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
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?
The title given to an individual who believed slavery should be made illegal
What is an abolitionist?