North vs South
Missouri
Abolitionists
1860-1861
Potpourri
100
The workers from the North who could choose their own jobs and earn wages for their work.
What is "free labor?"
100
This senator offered a compromise in both 1820 and 1850 to try to settle the conflict over slavery.
Who is Henry Clay?
100
A former slave who had escaped to New York, he gave powerful speeches and wrote books about the evils of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
His election alarmed leaders in the South who worried that he would try to end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The name given to a conflict between groups or sections of the same country.
What is civil war?
200
The crop that became an extremely valuable cash crop in the South after Eli Whitney's invention.
What is cotton?
200
The Compromise of 1820 allowed Missouri to join the Union as a slave state and this state to join as a free state.
What is Maine?
200
A former slave who had escaped to the North, she risked her life 19 times by going back into the South to guide hundreds of slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
Abraham Lincoln had said he would leave slavery alone in the South, but he was opposed to this.
What is slavery spreading west?
200
The name given to Kansas in the mid 1850s because of the violence that erupted there over slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
The type of labor used primarily in the South on farms and large plantations.
What is slave labor?
300
According to the Compromise of 1820, new states north of this line of latitude could not allow slavery.
What is 36' north?
300
A system of safe houses where runaway slaves could get food and shelter on their way to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Seven southern states did this after Lincoln's election, which means to officially withdraw from a country or government.
What is secede?
300
The name given to the states that chose to remain a part of the United States of America.
What is Union?
400
Located mostly in the North, these made all kinds of products, such as tools or sewing machines.
What are factories (or industries)?
400
According to the Compromise of 1850, California was admitted as a free state and the slave trade was ended in this city.
What is Washington, DC?
400
He led an armed group of abolitionists in Kansas and attempted to lead a slave revolt after taking weapons from an armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
400
On April 12, 1861, Confederates attacked this federal fortress in Charleston, South Carolina, in essence starting the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
400
The name given to a person who wanted to end slavery.
What is abolitionist?
500
This region did not want to see slavery spread into the new territories in the West.
What is the North?
500
According to the Compromise of 1850, this law said that officials in the North would help capture and return runaway slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
Upon meeting her, Abraham Lincoln supposedly said, "So you're the little woman who wrote the book that started this great war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
Elected in 1861, the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
Invented by Eli Whitney in 1793, it made it much easier to separate seeds from cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
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