Definitions
Define Abolitionist
Person against slavery
The purpose of the Missouri Compromise
To balance the number of free states and slave states to prevent a civil war
Became President in 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Where the Civil War Started.
Fort Sumter
The Southern economy depending on this crop above all else.
Cotton
Define Civil War
War within a nation
The purpose of the Compromise of 1850.
To balance the number of free states and slave states to prevent a civil war
This abolitionist attempted to start a slave revolt at Harper's Ferry.
John Brown
Describe Bleeding Kansas.
After the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 stated that peoples' votes in the territory would determine whether or not the states would be free or slave states, abolitionists and pro-slavery people clashed and over 200 people were killed.
Lincoln promised not to do this if the southern states stayed in the Union.
Free the Slaves
Define Popular Sovereignty
People rule / People vote
The Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 allowed new states to vote on if they would be slave or free, this is the common term for that decision.
Popular Sovereignty
This former slave became a confidant of President Lincoln and visited the White House multiple times.
Frederick Douglas
The reason Abraham Lincoln did not send troops and weapons to Fort Sumter before the Confederates attacked.
He wanted to avoid war at all costs
Explain the key economic difference between the North and South
North relied on manufacturing and factories (Industrial); South relied on farming (Agricultural)
Define Secede
To withdraw / to remove from
This law required Northerners to return runaway slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
Was a freed slave and leader of the underground railroad.
Harriet Tubman
What southern states began to do following the Election of 1860.
Seceding
This invention by Eli Whitney was intended to lessen the work load on slaves but instead vastly increased slavery across the south.
The Cotton gin
Define Antebellum
A term used to describe the period before the war.
This Supreme Court Case ruled that slaveowners could take their slaves to free states.
Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857)
Wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe,
Regardless of what anyone tells you, what was the Civil War about?
Slavery... all stop
The importance of Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
The novel demonstrated the evils of slavery, which made Northerner's more passionate against slavery, while angering Southerners, as they believe the novel exaggerated how bad slavery was.