Vocabulary
Antebellum
Before the War
The splitting of the Democrat vote allowed this person to win in the Electoral College with no Southern support in the Presidential Election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
The name of the largest migration US History.
California Gold Rush
The "Scott v Sanford," case dealt with what court?
Supreme Court
The textile industry in Northern States & Britain perpetuated what?
Slavery
Individual territories should be allowed to decide if slavery would be allowed there through their own democratic governments.
Popular Sovereignty
The slave found her freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
Creating new territories in the Midwest would allow for what to be built?
Transcontinental Railroad
The lack of Southern support allowed the Democrats to win the presidency in 1856. Who was the Democrat that won that election?
James Buchanan
This person tried to sue his owner for his freedom
Dred Scott
The issue of slavery in this territory led to a mini-civil war. It was called?
Bleeding Kansas
This author wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," about slave live in the South.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The United States paid how much for the Gadsden Purchase to Mexico?
$10 Million
This Act stopped the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas Nebraska Act
What are 4 elements of Black Slave Culture?
Music
Religion
Language
Food
The movement to get rid of slavery
Abolitionism
The Slave led a rebellion in Southampton County VA
Nathanial Turner (Nat Turner)
What were the first 7 States that seceded from the Union?
South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, Florida, Louisiana, & Georgia
Abraham Lincoln backed Douglass into a corner during the 1958 debates by pointing out his hypocritical stance on what 2 topics?
Popular sovereignty
Dred Scott decision.
What are the 3 Levels of the Social Hierarchy in the South?
1-Planters
2-Middle Class
3-Poor Whites
The "Old South," means what? (What Geographic oddity was prevalent)
The further North a state was the less tied to slavery their economy was (in general).
This abolitionist let attack on a Federal Arsenal at Harper's Ferry, VA in 1859.
John Brown
What line prohibited slavery according to the Missouri Compromise?
36/30 Line
What are the 5 parts to the Compromise of 1850?
1-California enters the Union as a Free State
2-Texas was denied territorial rights to New Mexico
3-Slavery is to be decided by the New Mexico & Utah territories
4-Slave Trade is outlawed in DC (not Slavery)
5-Stronger "Fugitive Slave Law"
What does the CSA stand for?
Confederate States of America