Causes of the Civil War I
Believed that God told him to kill white people in order to help put an end to slavery
Who is Nat Turner?
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?
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?
Someone who is against slavery and fights to end it
Abolitionist
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?
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 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?
the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
segregation