Reform Movements
Women's suffrage focused on winning women this right.
What is the right to vote?
This cash crop led to an increase in demand for enslaved labor.
What is cotton?
The movement to end slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement?
Violent clashes in this territory led to sectional tension in the mid 1850s.
What is Kansas?
The construction of this important project was a focus of debate in the 1860 election.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
This term is used to refer to the period of time in American history prior to the Civil War.
What is Antebellum?
The large farms that specialized in the production in cash crops.
What is a plantation?
The Great Compromise of 1850 led to the passage of this controversial law.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
This movement led to a resurgence in religion and morality in American society.
Enslaved people who worked in the field were expected to work this many days a week.
What is 6?
The novel that was published in 1852 that brought awareness to the mistreatment of enslaved African Americans in the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This Supreme Court case established that African Americans were not entitled to citizenship and rights guaranteed by the Constitution.
What is Dred Scott v Sanford?
This political party was divided over slavery in the run up to the presidential election of 1860.
This movement aimed to solve society's problems associated with alcoholism.
What is the Temperance Movement?
This type of enslaved person often had better quality clothing and food than other enslaved people.
What is a 'house slave'?
This group in the North was more likely to support the continued use of enslaved labor in the South.
Who are northern factory owners?
What is a homestead?
This group of Americans was opposed to enslaved workers in the new territories.
Who are western farmers?
What is education reform?
The rules established by plantation owners that enslaved people had to follow.
What are slave codes?
This man led a revolt against slavery at Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
The Great Compromise of 1850 updates this previous compromise from 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The four main candidates running for the office of the presidency in 1860.
Who are John Bell, John Breckinridge, Stephen A Douglas and Abraham Lincoln?