North
What is industrial (manufacturing, factories)
This describes the economy of the South
Agrarian (plantations, agriculture)
This is the central cause of the war
What is slavery?
This section of the country preferred a weaker federal government
What is the South?
These are the two major political parties of the time. Name them and which section of the US they would be mainly found for full points.
Who are the Democrats (South) and Republicans (North)?
The name to describe the states that remained loyal to the federal government, or "the North"
What is the Union?
Name for the states that voted to secede or leave the United States, "the South"
What is the Confederacy?
This cause refers to having loyalty and believing in the superiority of one's own region or section of the country, rather than the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
This 1850 law stated that Northerners must return runaway slaves to the South the law, which angered many Northerners
What is the Fugitive Slave Act/Law?
This is the process by which large numbers of people become concentrated in relatively small areas, forming cities.
What is urbanization?
This term refers to the movement to immediately end slavery
What is abolition?
With the rise of this Republican, Southerners believed the North would officially take away their right to govern themselves, abolish slavery, and destroy the Southern economy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The South advocated for this belief that the states' interest should take precedence over the interest of the national (federal) government
What are states' rights?
The period before a war, especially the American Civil War
What is Antebellum?
This term means to make change in order to bring about improvement, end abuses, or correct justices. (Women's rights, abolition, education, and prison)
What is reform?
This is the secret system of routes that helped slaves run away to the North for freedom
What is the Underground Railroad?
These are the four arguments pro-slavery advocates used to defend slavery
What is the racial argument, moral/religious argument, economic argument, and historical argument?
This law cancelled the Missouri Compromise and stated that slavery in Nebraska & Kansas territories would be decided by popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The slave trade becomes outlawed in Washington D.C., California is admitted as a free state, and Utah and New Mexico will determine whether slavery is allowed through popular sovereignty.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This discovery lead to a huge population boom in California (San Francisco) and Asian + Latin American immigration
What is the Gold Rush?
This country was founded in West Africa in 1822 as a place for free slaves to live away from whites, which was supported by colonization abolitionists
What is Liberia?
This term is used to describe the process of categorizing, marginalizing, or regarding according to race
What is racialization?
This was a mini-Civil War fought in the Kansas territory between pro-slavery settlers & anti-slavery settlers who fought over whether the new territory should be free or slave
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This compromise prohibited slavery north of the 36 30 line in the Louisiana Purchase territory, with the exception of Missouri, and allowed it south of the line.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This allowed the people in a territory or state to vote on whether or not they wanted to be a free state or slave state