Causes of the Civil War I
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage in the North and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
What does it mean for a state to remove themselves from the union or country?
What is to secede?
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?
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?
Someone who is against slavery and fights to end it
Abolitionist
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?
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?
What was created in 1820 to keep the balance of power between free and slave states?
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is loyalty to one's own region or section of the country rather than to the country as a whole?
What is sectionalism?
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 feeling of being weighed down or held back by severe and unfair force
What is Oppression?
What was the official start of the Civil War?
What is the surrender of Fort Sumter?
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?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What is the people vote to decide the issue of slavery?
What was the name given to Kansas after violence broke out in 1855?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
the social separation of groups of people, especially by race
segregation