Causes of Civil War I
The main issue that the North and the South could not agree on.
What is slavery.
This region of the US had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South towards secession.
What is the election of 1860?
This radical abolitionist leader led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
Loyalty to local interests, customs of one's own region instead of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Political party that grew out of the Whig and Free-Soil Parties.
What is Republican Party?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country.
What is secession?
An 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
The creator of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
A person who is running away from the law.
What is fugitive?
This region of the US had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased demand for slaves in the South.
What is the Cotton Gin?
This law was created to maintain the balance of free and slave states. It drew a latitudinal line on the map of the Louisiana Territory at 36°30'.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Abolitionist author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The idea that the people should have the power to vote to determine if the state would be a free or slave state.
What is popular sovereignty?
The two states (one free one slave) added by the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
What is Missouri (slave) and Maine (free).
The first state to secede and start the ___.
What is South Carolina and Confederacy?
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owner.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
He was the Great Compromiser.
Who was Henry Clay?
The idea that the states should have more power than the federal government.
What is states rights doctrine?
The United States cannot continue to be divided, half slave half free, it must choose to be all one or all the other.
What were the conditions of the Compromise of 1850?
1. CA free state
2. Slavery banned in D.C.
3. Congress cannot ban slavery
4. Popular Sovereignty in new states
5. Fugitive Slave Act
Nickname for violence in certain territory over whether or not it was going to be a slave state.
This Senator was attacked by Preston Brookes with his cane in the Senate chambers.
Who is Senator Charles Sumner?
This abolitionist organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. 100 more points if you can tell me the most famous conductor of this organization.
What is the Underground Railroad? Who is Harriet Tubman?