Was the Underground Railroad underground or a railroad
NO!
100
What are the three provisions of the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri=slave state
Maine=free state
No slaves north of the 36'30 line,
100
Define Sectionalism
Loyalty to one part of the country at the expense of the whole
100
Which region (North or South) had more roads, factories, and people?
North
100
What was the Republican Party's stance on slavery?
It should not be allowed to expand westward
200
What system did Northerners put in place to funnel escaped slaves to Canada?
The Underground Railroad
200
What did both the north and south get in the Compromise of 1850?
North= California is a free state
South= the Fugitive Slave Act
200
The Fugitive Slave Act forced what part of the country to help capture slaves?
northerners
200
Why did the South develop slavery while the North did not?
The physical geography (warm, fertile soil, flat land) allowed large scale agriculture and plantations.
200
Uncle Tom's Cabin created support for what reform movement?
The Abolition Movement
300
What two actions did John Brown take to attempt to end slavery?
Murdered slave owners in Kansas and attempted to start a slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry
300
In the Kansas Nebraska Act, how would states decide if they wanted slavery or not (fancy Social Studies term only)
Popular Sovereignty
300
What group of reformers viewed John Brown as a hero?
Abolitionists
300
What happened in the first half of the 19th century to give the north a much greater population than the south?
Urbanization, Industrialization, and Immigration.
300
What was the immediate cause of South Carolina seceding from the United States?
The election of Lincoln in 1860
400
How did the Second Great Awakening help support the rise of the Abolition movment
People were encouraged to fix the things that they saw as immoral or wrong.
400
The Missouri Compromise, compromise of 1850, and the Kansas Nebraska Act all dealt with what issue?
Slavery expanding west.
400
What made it made expensive for the South to buy European goods and forced them to buy goods from the North instead
Tariffs
400
What type of people did the north use for labor instead of slaves?
Immigrants
400
List two of the results of the Dred Scott decision
African Americans cannot be citizens.
African Americans cannot use the court system.
Slavery cannot be banned in the territories
Slaves cannot be taken away without Due Process
500
Who was responsible for publishing the anti-slavery newspaper The Liberator?
William Lloyd Garrison
500
Who was Responsible for many of the compromises?
Henry Clay(West)
500
Who is the person who Lincoln debates over slavery?
Stephen Douglas
500
Who were the candidates supported by the North and South in the election of 1860?
North:
South:
North: Lincoln
South: Breckenridge
500
How did the North rely upon slavery?
The used cotton picked in the south in textile mills and factories to produce goods.