Vocabulary
to leave or withdraw from a political body
What is secession
After he was elected President many southern states began seceding
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The event which admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free sate to maintain the Congressional balance
What is the Missouri Compromise
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves
What is the cotton gin
the Confederacy attacked this fort and started the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
Someone who against slavery and wants to end it
What is an Abolitionist
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This event strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act and angered the northerners who did not want to take part in the institution of slavery
What is the Compromise of 1850
this aspect of the southern economy made slavery seem necessary
Economy based in agriculture and dependent on slaves
the act which required northerners to return escaped slaves back to their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
United States of America/northern states
What is the Union
He unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
Who is Dred Scott?
After this event took place many southern states began seceding from the Union
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln
Union is to ______ as Confederacy is to _________
What is north and south
Allowed states to use popular sovereignty to determine if they would be free or slave sates
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The southern states that seceded from the Union
What is the Confederate States of America
The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This event took place after the Kansas-Nebraska Act when pro and anti-slavery activists were fighting ans lasted approximately 5 years
What is Bleeding Kansas
The north's economy was based in
What is manufacturing/industry/factory
the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves
What is the Emancipation Proclomation
Someone who is killed fighting for a cause; seen as self-sacrificing for a cause they believe in
What is a martyr
the Governor of Louisiana in 1861
Who is Governor Moore?
this event took place when an abolitionists who wanted to put an end to slavery supplied slaves with weapons so that they could rebel
What is John Brown's Raid
The President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln
With slavery, this issue also increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy
What is state's rights