Vocabulary
This vocabulary term means regional loyalty.
Sectionalism
In the Northern states there were few plantations. Most farms were small, and they did not require many workers. As a result, all of the Northern states had already________________ slavery.
abolished
Congress passed a high tariff, or a tax on imports. The tariff helped protect Northern factory owners. It made imported goods more expensive than goods made in the United States.
The tariff hurt wealthy _______________________ because they imported many goods from Europe. They blamed the North for supporting the tariff.
Southerners
someone who escape from the law
fugitive
In 1854, Congress passed the _____________-_____________________. It gave people living in those territories the right to decide if they wanted slavery. This changed the rules of the Missouri Compromise, which had outlawed slavery in those territories.
Kansas- Nebraska Act
did not allow slavery
Freed state
In Southern states, enslaved Africans worked on plantations that grew mainly __________________ and ________________ .
cotton and tobacco
______________________- argued against the tariff. He believed in states´ rights, or the idea that the states, not the national government, should have the final say on laws that affected them.
John C. Calhoun
All the business that make one kind of product or offer one kind of services.
industry
________________________ was an enslaved man owned by an army doctor. His owner moved often, and Scott traveled with him.
Dred Scott
did allow slavery
Slave State
The ___________-___________line—roughly the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland—was seen as the dividing line between free states and slave states.
Maxon-Dixie
_____________________________________ Settlers in California, a part of these new lands, asked to join the Union as a free state. That would give the free states an advantage in the Senate. Southern leaders feared that Congress would pass a law outlawing slavery everywhere.
The Compromise of 1850
A system of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free land.
Underground railroad
Dred Scott´s case moved up through the federal court system until it reached the United States Supreme Court. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled against Scott. Chief Justice _____________________ wrote that since Scott was enslaved, he had "none of the rights and privileges" of an American citizen. He also wrote that enslaved people were property.
Roger B. Taney
The idea that the states, not the national government, should have the final say so on all laws.
states' right
Then in 1819, _________________wanted to join the Union as a slave state. That would have upset the balance between free states and slave states.
Clay suggested that Missouri be admitted to the Union as a slave state and ________________be admitted as a free state.
Missouri and Maine
________________________________ was also part of the compromise. A fugitive is someone who escapes from the law. This law required all Americans to turn in people who had escaped slavery. The law was very unpopular in the North.
The Fugitive Slave Act
In 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote a book called _____________________________ . It told the story of how enslaved workers were mistreated. Many people in the North had ignored the issue of slavery, but Stowe´s book changed that.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Many white Northerners and free African Americans worked to abolish slavery. In 1827, two free African Americans, Samuel Cornish and John Russwurm, started a newspaper called___________________________.
Freedom's Journal
A tax on imports goods.
tariff
The __________________________________ kept the peace for nearly 30 years. The number of free states and slave states remained equal.
Missouri Compromise
__________________________, who became known as the Great Compromiser, died in 1852. He never gave up hope that the country would find a peaceful way to settle its differences. However, bad feelings between people in the free states and the slave states soon led to violence.
Henry Clay
Wagener gained her freedom in 1827. She believed that God had called her to "travel up and down the land" to preach. She changed her name to ___________________________________ Sojourner means "traveler".
Sojourner Truth
In 1833, ______________________, a white Northerner, founded the American Antislavery Society.
William Lloyd Garrison