These manufacturing buildings were popping up all over the North in the mid-1800s.
What are factories?
100
__________ remained the most common way to earn a living in the South in the mid-1800s.
What is farming?
100
According to the Slave Codes, slaves were not allowed to ____________(name any rule)
What is could not leave owners' land or meet in groups or buy/sell goods or learn to read/write, marry, etc?
100
This enslaved African took his case to the Supreme Court asking for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
100
He was President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
People from other countries that came to work in the US are called this
What are immigrants?
200
This Eli Whitney invention created more work for slaves on Southern plantations
What is the cotton gin?
200
Name 1 way that slaves dealt with the daily hardships of their lives.
What is formed communities, kept traditions alive, religious beliefs, or sang spirituals?
200
She was a runaway slave and a famous conductor on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
This decision "drew" an imaginary line through the lands of the Louisiana Purchase. Northern states would be free states, Southern states would be slave states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
Abraham Lincoln called for Northern soldiers to help preserve (or keep together) the ____________.
What is the Union?
300
Southerners were angry at Northerners because of the slavery issue and ________________ .
What is states rights (or jealous of Northern growth?)
300
In 1850, this ruling allowed California to join the Union as a free state, and implemented the Fugitive Slave act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
He lost a Senate race, but later became our 16th President
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
300
Southern states seceded from the Union because of this
What is they refused to have a President who was against slavery?
400
There was over 20,000 miles of this laid out in the North in 1860, allowing for goods to be shipped quickly from place to place.
What are railroad tracks?
400
This southern state was the first to secede from the Union
What is South Carolina?
400
These escape routes,which led slaves to freedom, were known as this
What is the Underground Railroad?
400
Congressman and slave owner who was known as the Great Compromiser
Who is Henry Clay?
400
___________ was not one of the first seven states to secede:
South Carolina, Alabama, Delaware, Texas
What is Delaware?
500
This Northern state joined the Union as a free state, as part of the Missouri Compromise
What is Maine?
500
This enslaved African led a rebellion on a Virginia plantation, that killed 57 people.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
Fighting broke out in this state ,after an act was passed saying this state could decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery
What is Kansas?
500
This man's belief was that slavery should be decided by the states, he debated and defeated Abraham Lincoln in the 1858 Senatorial debate.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
500
Chief Justice Roger Taney denied Dred Scott his freedom because of this
What is he was property and did not have the rights of American citizens?