Causes of the Civil War I
The main issue that the North and South could not agree on.
What is slavery?
This region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
This region of the United States had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
A state that did not permit slavery
What is a free state?
A person who is running away from the law.
What is a fugitive?
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South toward secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves in the South
What is the Cotton Gin?
Name the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The idea that the people should have the power to vote to determine if the state would be a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
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 law was created to maintain the balance of free and slave states, and it drew a latitudinal line on the map of the Louisiana Territory at 36°30'.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The political candidate who won the Illinois Senate election in 1858.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
Loyalty to local interests, customs of one's own region instead of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This was an abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
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?
This was the nickname given to the period after the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which led people to become violent in the streets (and in Congress).
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Name the city where the transcontinental railroad eastern terminal would start.
What is Chicago?
Name the black abolitionist who owned the abolitionist newspaper known as the North Star.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
How many of the justices in the Dred Scott Supreme Court case were from the South?
What is 5?
Which state created the Lecompton Constitution?
What is Kansas?
This person is the one who beat Senator Charles Sumner with his cane in the Senate chambers.
Who is Preston Brookes?
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
What is South Carolina?
Name the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?