Conflict on the Horizon
Economics
Attempts to Resolve the Conflict
Complications
The Bottom Falls Out
100
This practice caused the greatest friction between North and South before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100
This cash crop was grown in the South and made planters rich.
What is cotton?
100
This agreement between the Northern and Southern states set a line. North of the line, slavery was outlawed. South of the line, slavery was permitted.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This is a new plan for the country that replaced the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
Name the heroic American woman who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin to expose the evils of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
When people have more allegiance or loyalty to part of the country rather than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
200
This invention led to a huge cotton boom in the South prior to the Civil War.
What is the cotton gin?
200
This conflict created new lands in the west, leading to more questions about how to divide the country between slavery and freedom.
What is the Mexican War?
200
Under the Compromise of 1850, this state came into the country free.
What is California?
200
Name this effort, organized by Harriet Tubman, to help slaves escape the South and gain their freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This was the economic emphasis of the North leading up to the Civil War.
What is trade or industry?
300
This is the idea that the federal or national government should leave the states alone and let them solve their own problems.
What is states' rights?
300
This is the idea, presented by politicians in the North, that the west should not have slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
300
This is the idea that states should decide for themselves whether to permit or prohibit slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Name this American activist who decided to fight slavery on his own by giving arms to the slaves in the hope that they would fight for their freedom.
What is John Brown?
400
This was the economic emphasis of the South leading up to the Civil War.
This was farming?
400
This is either the idea that slavery is wrong and should be ended or the name given to people who argued and worked for the end of slavery.
What is abolitionism or what are abolitionists?
400
This state created a problem for the country because it was both north and south of the line between slave and free states.
What is California?
400
Name the U.S. court case that threw out the Missouri Compromise, potentially making all states "slave states."
What is Dred Scott or Scott v. Sanford?
400
Name the federal armory that John Brown raided in an effort to get guns so he could arm the slaves and help them win their freedom.
What is Harper's Ferry?
500
Name the idea that even if the North couldn't forbid slavery (after Dred Scott), the people of the North could still refuse to go along with it, effectively creating "free states" even if the Constitution didn't allow it. Hint: This idea really upset the South because it suggested that the North would not help southerners get their slaves back.
What is the Freeport Doctrine?
500
Name the colonel who caught John Brown who ended up becoming one of the most important generals in the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
Name the federal law that created two new states that was based on the idea of popular sovereignty. On paper, it was a good idea but in practice, it ended up creating a version of the Civil War at the state level.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Name the African American who started a slave revolt and who was considered a terror and a nightmare to slave-owners throughout the South.
Who is Nat Turner?
500
Name the Union Fort, located in South Carolina, that was the last Union fort in the South. This is the fort the Confederates fired on, effectively starting the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
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