People
Vocabulary
Events
North
South
100
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Abraham Lincoln
100

To meet especially in a challenge

Confront

100
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
100
What was the sentiment (or feeling) about slavery in the North?
Against it.
100
What was the feeling about slavery in the south?
For it.
200

Who was against slavery and tried to start a rebellion in Kansas? (Ms. Barndt's boyfriend)

John Brown

200

The U.S, is one nation united under a single government.

Union

200

What happened in the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

Kansas and Nebraska were allowed to select what type of state they wanted to be.

200
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
Manufacturing (or factories.)
200
What was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
300

Who created the amendment that said Missouri must enter the union as a free state?

Robert Tallmadge

300

To make sure or certain

Ensure

300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300

Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were candidates in the Illinois race for U.S. senator.

Lincoln-Douglas debates

300

When Missouri tried to enter the Union it would upset the _____________ of free states and slave states.

Balance

400

Who wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

400

A group of people within a larger group who have different ideas from the main group

Faction

400
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
400

What is the name of the proposal made to prohibit slavery in the territory added to the U.S. because of the Mexican-American War?

Wilmot Proviso

400
Name at least four states that seceded from the Union.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas
500

Who are we going to listen to on the field trip? (Abolitionist)

Frederick Douglass

500

A person who flees or tries to escape

Fugitive

500

This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. 

The Missouri Compromise 

500
Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
500

Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? 

Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves anywhere.

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