Economic Causes
Political Causes
Social Causes
Vocabulary
Hodge Podge
100
the northern economy
What was based on industry and commerce?
100
Divided Congress along regional lines and led to the formation of the Free-Soil Party
What is Wilmot Proviso?
100
Harriett Beecher Stowe
Who is the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
Confederate States of America
What is the name of the nation formed by the southern states that seceded from the Union?
100
John C. Fremont, 1856
Who was the first Republican to run for president?
200
The Southern economy
What is based on plantations and slave labor?
200
Brought California into the Union as a free state and created the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
Many Southerners were angered by this book because of how it portrayed slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
Jefferson Davis
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
200
The nickname given to the three years of fighting that took place in the Kansas-Nebraska territory
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
300
KING of the South in the mid-1800's
What is cotton?
300
Court case that caused increased tensions between the North and South when the Supreme Court decided a slave could not sue for his freedom
What is the Dred Scott Case?
300
The decision by our founding fathers to count slaves as people AND property that is found in the Constitution
What is the Three-Fifths Compromise?
300
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the law that allowed occupants of this territory to vote for slavery?
300
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What are the number of states won by Republican candidate, John Fremont in 1856?
400
Tariff
What is a tax placed on imported good?
400
Republican President elected to office in 1860
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
"Do I report this runaway slave or help him?!?"
What is the feeling many Northerners had about the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
Popular Sovereignty
What is allowing the people to vote?
400
A congressional debate over slavery that took place in the mid-1800's
What is the Lincoln-Douglas Debate?
500
First state to secede from the Union in 1861 for fear of losing their slaves
What is South Carolina?
500
The South sited this reason for being allowed to leave the Union
What is states' rights theory?
500
The growing movement of people in the 1800's who were against slavery
What is the abolitionist movement?
500
Formed from three political parties on the ideal of stopping the spread of slavery
What is the Republican Party?
500
The northern view on the south's secession
What is unconstitutional?
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