Causes of the Civil War

Expansion of Slavery

100

This policy allowed the people living in a territory to decide whether or not they wanted to allow slavery. 

Popular sovereignty

200

The imaginary line that dictated that slavery would be prohibited from spreading to new territories in the North.

36'30

300

The compromise that allowed Utah & New Mexico territories to vote on whether or not they wanted slavery in exchange for making California a free state. 

Compromise of 1850

400

Part of this compromise was to ban the slave trade in Washington D.C. 

Compromise of 1850 

500

This act nullified the Missouri Compromise, because it opened up area north of Missouri to slavery. 

The Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Life in the North

100

The North's economy was rooted in this. 

Industry 

200

The North generally wanted a _________ Federal government. 

Strong / big 

300

People in the North generally had better access to this. 

Education

400

Communities in the North were more diverse, including large numbers of _________________.

Immigrants

500

Name 3 free states in the North (through the year 1854). 

OH, PA, NY, MA, RI, NH, ME, MI, IN, IL, WI, IO, CA, OR

Life in the South

100

The South's economy was primarily rooted in this. 

Agriculture 

200

The South's economy and way of life was dependent on this institution, making it vital to the South's "survival".

Slavery 

300

This invention led to increased production of the South's largest export.

Cotton Gin 

400

Southern society was usually run by old, wealthy families. This is called an ______________. 

Aristocracy 

500

The South's population was generally living in more ________ settings, where the North's population was more _____________. 

Rural, Urban 

Escalating Violence

100

John Brown led a slave rebellion, raiding this military fort for weapons. 

Harper's Ferry 

200

A pseudo-war that took place in a new state where popular sovereignty would decide the fate of slavery. 

Bleeding Kansas 

300

John Brown believed that slavery would never end without this. 

Violence 

400

Pro-Slavery voters from this state tried to illegally vote in Kansas, in order to sway the outcome. 

Missouri 

500

Charles Sumner was nearly beaten to death by a pro-slavery representative after he gave a speech denouncing this legal act. 

Kansas-Nebraska Act 

Slavery

100

This was a system of safe houses that helped escaped slaves make it to free states in the North. 

Underground Railroad

200

An abolitionist and former slave, he wrote the famous speech: What to the Slave is the 4th of July? 

Frederick Douglass 

300

Name two ways in which enslaved people resisted slavery. 

Marriage, rebellion, escape, leisure, acts of violence/poisoning 

400

This act was part of the Compromise of 1850, and was an example of one of the ways in which the government supported slaveholders. 

The Fugitive Slave Act 

500

This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans, enslaved or free, were not U.S. citizens and therefore not protected by the Constitution. 

Dred Scott v. Sanford