Vocabulary
Slavery
Graphs
North and South
Abraham Lincoln
100
A war between two groups or regions within a nation.
What is civil war?
100
The cash crop that caused Southerners to depend on enslaved workers.
What is cotton?
100
This graph compares amounts of things.
What is a bar graph?
100
This was the main issue causing division between the Northern and Southern states.
What is slavery?
100
The election of this president in 1860 caused the Southern states to secede from the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
A person who is running away.
What is a fugitive?
200
These people printed newspapers and spoke out against slavery.
What are abolitionists?
200
This graph illustrates how a part compares with the whole.
What is a circle graph?
200
The South believed in this idea that states should make final decisions about what affects them.
What are State's rights?
200
Lincoln saw this as a moral, social, and political evil.
What is slavery?
300
Another name for the United States.
What is the Union?
300
A series of escape routes and hiding places to bring enslaved people out of the South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This graph shows changes over time.
What is a line graph?
300
These made imported goods that were not available in the South more expensive.
What are tariffs?
300
In a famous quote, Lincoln stated that this divided against itself cannot stand.
What is a house?
400
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
400
This group tried to settle the dispute about slavery between the North and South.
What is Congress?
400
This tells you the subject and purpose of a graph.
What is the title?
400
Confederate soldiers fired the first shots of the Civil War in 1861 on this place.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
Lincoln did not support this compromise that allowed territories to make decisions for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
Loyalty to one part of a country.
What is sectionalism?
500
This Democratic candidate who ran for the Senate in Illinois in 1858 supported slavery.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
These explain the units of measurement and the type of information presented.
What are labels?
500
The number of states that seceded from the Union.
What is 11?
500
The number of times Lincoln debated Stephen Douglas before the Senate race in 1858.
What is seven?
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