Compromise
This compromise occurred in 1820 and lasted for almost 30 years.
What is The Missouri Compromise
Leader of the country's deadliest slave rebellion
Who is Nat Turner
This region of the country believed in States' Rights.
What is the South?
This party nominated two candidates for the office of President in the election of 1860
What is the Democratic Party?
This is the act of pulling out of the Union
What is secession
This person created the Kansas - Nebraska Act, which ended the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and later ran for president
Who is Stephan Douglass?
This machine helped to ease the work of the cotton field workers, but also created a greater need for slaves to produce cotton.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Southerners would often refer to their _______ as their property
What are enslaved people?
This candidate was against the spread of slavery, in favor of protective tarriffs (taxes) and wanted to build a transcontinental railroad
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The south became this when it was completely dependent on the institution of slavery for all aspects of life
What is a slave society?
This compromise allowed two states to decide the issue of slavery for themselves by popular vote.
What is The Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It was illegal for enslaved people to learn how to do this
What is reading and writing
Politicians from this region believed that all states should abide by the laws created by the Congress and signed by our President
What is the North
This region believed the winner of the election was "for" everything they were "against"
What is the South
The purpose of this act was to require that run away slaves be returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This law created the territory known as "Bleeding Kansas"
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
As cotton production increased in the United States, so did this.
What is the number of enslaved people in the United States
People from this region believed lawmakers from states like Maine or New York could not possibly understand or care about their wants and needs.
What is the South
This candidate lost to Lincoln
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The type of labor the North and South used respectively
What is wage labor?
What is slave labor?
Under this compromise the Fugitive Slave Law was passed
What is the Compromise of 1850
This is the one thing that was working for the South economically, which meant an increased need for slavery.
What is agriculture?
This region wanted the federal government to have more power than the states
What is the North?
Almost all of this candidates electoral votes came from free states
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The U.S. gained a mass of land as the result of this war
What is the Mexican American War