Land Laws
What is the name of the invisible line that was created with the Missouri Compromise that said states joining north of the line would be free states and states joining south of the line would be slave states?
What is the Missouri Compromise Line.
The Republican Party's main belief.
What is to abolish slavery
A special tax placed on imported goods brought into the US.
What is tariff.
Who were the two candidates in the 1860 election and their political parties?
What is Stephen Douglas - Democrat and Abraham Lincoln - Republican.
Why did the North want higher tariffs on imported goods?
What is North wanting people to buy more from US factories than from overseas.
How did the North and South support their economies?
What is North relied on factories to produce goods and South relied on enslaved labor on plantations growing cotton.
Name a major cash crop grown in the south.
What is cotton
Who won the 1860 election?
What is Abraham Lincoln?
Why were British factories able to sell goods at lower prices compared to U.S. factories?
What is British factories were larger and had newer technology to produce more products and faster.
Why did the South want lower tariffs on imported goods?
What is the South wanted to continue buying cheaper goods from Britain.
Under this act, African American without papers could be captured and sent back to slavery.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
What was the Missouri Compromise?
What is an agreement that allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
If a state banned slavery, it was called a?
What is free state.
I am the President of the United States who was elected in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The South was so upset about Lincoln's election in 1860 because he was against what? What were they worried he may do?
What is he was against slavery and planned to abolish it throughout the country.
The Compromise of 1850 created this method of deciding if a territory would become a free or slave state.
What is Left it to the people of the territory to decide if they are a free or a slave state.
Who was nicknamed the Great Compromiser? Which two big compromises did he create?
Who is Henry Clay and Missouri Compromise and Compromise of 1850.
If a person aided a runaway slave through the Underground Railroad, their punishment was.
What is a large fine and potential jail time.
I am an escaped enslaved person who returned over 19 times to the South to be a conductor on the Underground Railroad to help hundreds of other enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Name the five main causes that led to the Civil War.
What is 1. Slavery 2. Factories vs. Farming 3. Unbalance between free state vs. slave state 4. Bleeding Kansas 5. Abraham Lincoln being elected.