North/South
The north relied on _________ for economic prosperity
factories/machinery
This compromise admitted Maine as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.
Missouri Comrpomise
Added California to the U.S. as a free state, let the territories of New Mexico and Utah decide if they had slavery or not
Compromise of 1850
a state of the US in which slavery was illegal.
Free state
Won the election of 1860; lead to South Carolina seceding
Abraham Lincoln
Describe the South's labor force
Relied on slave labor. Cotton gin. Farmers
Law Required Northerners to help return escaped enslaved people
The Fugitive Slave Act
Repeals Missouri Compromise; settlers vote on slavery
Kansas-Nebraska Act
states of the US in which slavery was legal before the Civil War.
Slave State
She helped over 300 enslaved people escape on the "Underground Railroad"
Harriet Tubman
Explain the impact that climate had on the South's labor force.
Warmer climate good for growing cash crops (cotton, tobacco, etc.); long farming season influence reliance on slave labor.
Violent clashes in Kansas after people voted on slavery
Bleeding Kansas
Debates focused on slavery; made Lincoln famous; helped him win 1860 election.
Lincoln-Douglas debates
A war between groups within the same country.
Civil War
An escaped enslaved man who became a powerful speaker and published an anti-slavery newspaper.
Frederick Douglass
Describe the difference in railroad transportation between the North and South
North had twice as many railroads, and were more interconnected.
Supreme Court decision declared enslaved people were property not citizens
Dred Scott Decision
Presidential election that led the South to the south beginning to secede from the Union
(provide year & president elected)
to leave or withdraw from a group or country
Secede
Led a violent slave rebellion in Virginia, causing stricter slave laws.
Nat Turner
Who participated in the North's labor force?
Women, children, immigrants.
This abolitionists failed raid made him a hero in the North; but hated in the South
John Brown
A slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Led to over 50 white people being killed. Led to stricter laws on enslaved people.
Nat-Turner's Rebellion
The central government and loyal states of the United States during the American Civil War
The Union
This abolitionist’s debates with Stephen Douglas made him nationally famous
Abraham Lincoln