Attempts to Compromise
Admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Industry based.
What is the North?
Helped slaves escape thru the "Underground Railroad"
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Southern states left the union to fight for their right to keep this practice.
What is slavery?
Republican candidate running for President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the name for the southern states during the civil war.
What are the confederate states of america?
City population grew 75%
What is the North
This was the name for the northern states during the civil war.
What is the union?
This battle was known as a siege on a southern town.
What is the siege of Vicksburg?
This party disagreed with slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This group of people wanted to make slavery illegal.
Who were abolitionists?
Economy based on agriculture.
What is the South.
This man was the President of the Northern States during the civil war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man was the President of the Confederate states of america during the civil war.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle led to Lincoln making the emancipation proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This term let the people of a state decide if slavery was legal or illegal.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Immigrants were moving here for jobs.
What is the North?
Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the south with this.
What is the emancipation proclamation?
This required runaway slaves to be captured and returned to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This is the name of the farms slaves worked on.
What is a plantation?
Abraham Lincoln delivered this famous speech after an important battle.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
These were the major "cash crops" of the South.
What are cotton, tobacco, and rice?
Sued for his freedom, but lost when Supreme Court ruled that he was property and couldn't sue.
Who is Dred Scott
This invention made it easier to remove seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
This is how many years Lincoln was talking about when he said "four score and seven years ago"
What is 87 years?