North vs. South
The South’s economy depended mostly on this.
What is agriculture / farming (cash crops)?
This person wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that turned many Northerners against slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and drew a line at 36°30′.
Missouri Compromise
He gave the “House Divided” speech in 1858.
Abraham Lincoln
This 1860 event led Southern states to begin seceding.
By 1850, this was the fastest and most efficient way to transport goods in the North.
the railroad
This famous conductor on the Underground Railroad escaped slavery herself and guided many others to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in two new territories, ended the slave trade in D.C., and passed a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
Compromise of 1850
This former enslaved man became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer.
frederick douglass
This state was the first to secede from the Union.
south carolina
This invention greatly increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
cotton gin
This 1831 event in Virginia frightened Southerners and led to stricter slave codes.
Nat Turner’s Rebellion
This law forced Northerners to help capture runaways or face punishment.
Fugitive Slave Act
This man tried to start a violent slave revolt by raiding the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
john brown
This violent period in the Kansas Territory showed how divided the country had become.
“Bleeding Kansas”
Most goods in the South were moved by this type of transportation.
river / waterways
This term described secret routes and helpers who assisted enslaved people escaping to the North.
Underground Railroad
This 1854 law let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska vote on slavery, canceling the Missouri Compromise line
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Supreme Court case said African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
Dred Scott v. Sandford
This event in 1861 turned the secession crisis into an actual Civil War.
attack on ft. sumter
The geography of the South helped it grow crops because of fertile soil, long growing seasons, and plentiful rainfall, but it lacked this natural feature that powered Northern factories.
fast-moving rivers for water-powered mills
The MOST common way enslaved people resisted slavery was not uprisings or escapes but this:
quiet, everyday resistance (like slowing work or secretly disobeying)
In 1846 this failed proposal would have banned slavery in any land gained from Mexico during the war.
Wilmot Proviso
In 1856 this anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts was attacked in Congress by Preston Brooks for his speech against slavery in Kansas.
Charles Sumner
In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln argued that slavery was not just a political issue but this kind of issue.
moral