Abe Lincoln
The man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes-Booth
Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry?
Who was Abraham Lincoln
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
what is slavery
What was the sentiment about slavery in the north
They where Against it.
What was the feeling about slavery in the south?
They wanted it
Abraham Lincoln was the first U.S. President from what political party?
What is the Republican Party
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
Who was John Brown
Who "rode" on the Underground Railroad?
Runaway slaves
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
What is Manufacturing
Most of the South's economy based upon This
What is Agriculture
Hodgenville, Kentucky
Where was Abraham Lincoln born?
President of the Confederacy
Who was Jefferson Davis?
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
What did many from the North feel government's structure should be?
Strong
What did many in the south feel the structure of government should be?
States should have equal or more power than the federal government.
The freedom of all people including African Americans
What was Lincolns biggest goal as president
Why would Harriet Tubman risk her life to return to the south nineteen times to help others escape to freedom?
She knew what it was like to be a slave and wanted to help others reach freedom.
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
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
what is popular sovereignty
Name at least four states that seceded from the Union.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, and Alabama
What happened on April 15, 1865
When was Lincoln assassinated
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth were involved in what reform movement?
The Abolitionist Movement
This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
The Missouri Compromise
Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin
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 Because Now slave owners could take their slaves ANYWHERE they wanted as slaves were considered PROPERTY.