Sectionalism and Economics
This economic system relied heavily on cash crops like cotton in the Southern states.
Agriculture
This famous conductor of the Underground Railroad made over 13 trips to free hundreds of enslaved people.
Harriet Tubman
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This 1820 compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state to maintain balance. Additionally, it set the 36/30 parallel as the boundary of slavery in future states.
Name any former slave that became an Abolitionist.
Frederick Douglass, Dred Scott, Harriet Tubman, Nat Turner, Solomon Northup, etc.
Who was the first Republican president?
Abraham Lincoln
What laborers did the North primarily rely upon?
Immigrants (mostly Irish)
Which enslaved man led a violent rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner
What is the Compromise of 1850?
California was admitted as a free state under the condition that the Fugitive Slave Act was passed, and New Mexico would operate under popular sovereignty.
The Virginia Court at his trial.
What was the primary reason the Democratic Party lost the 1860 election?
They were divided between Northern and Southern Democrats.
What is sectionalism?
This term describes when people favor the interests of one region over the interests of the country as a whole.
This abolitionist wrote a fictional novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, that made many Northerners sympathetic to the Abolitionist cause.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This 1854 act allowed Kansas and Nebraska territories to use popular sovereignty to decide on slavery in response to the North getting the Transcontinental Railroad.
Frederick Douglass delivered this famous speech in 1852 with this title, criticizing American hypocrisy on slavery.
"What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?"
Lincoln won the 1860 election with approximately this percentage of the popular vote.
40%
How much faster did the cotton gin make cotton production?
About 50 times faster.
This abolitionist attempted to start a slave revolt at Harpers Ferry and was later hanged, becoming a martyr for the North.
John Brown
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The Supreme Court ruled in this 1857 case that African-Americans were not U.S. citizens and slavery could not be banned by the National Government.
What did John Brown use to justify his actions at Harper's Ferry?
The Bible (New Testament)
What policy that Lincoln campaigned for caused the South to fear his election to office? (Be specific)
Although Lincoln said he wouldn't abolish slavery in states where it already existed, he would prevent its further spread into the West.
Describe how the North and South's economies were dependent on each other.
The South produced cotton but needed the North's industry to process it.
Describe the difference between direct and indirect abolitionism and give one example of each.
Direct abolitionism involved physically freeing enslaved people (e.g., Underground Railroad), while indirect abolitionism spread information through speeches, newspapers, and books (e.g., Uncle Tom's Cabin)?
What was controversial about Bleeding Kansas?
The act allowed popular sovereignty, which led to pro-slavery Missourians illegally voting in Kansas.
What differences were there between Frederick Douglass' and John Brown's approaches to abolition?
Douglass used speeches and writing to persuade (indirect), while Brown attempted violent rebellion at Harpers Ferry (direct)
Which Northern Democrat advocated for the Transcontinental Railroad to begin in Chicago? Additionally, he famously debated Lincoln to win a seat in the Illinois senate.
Stephen A. Douglas