North vs. South
This region of the United States became more industrialized during the 1850s
What is the North?
This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state and included a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
She escaped slavery and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This political party formed in 1854 to oppose the expansion of slavery into the territories.
What is the Republican Party?
He was the Republican candidate who won the presidential election of 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This type of economy dominated the South, relying on plantations, small farms, and cash crops.
What is an agricultural economy?
This idea allowed residents of a territory to vote on whether to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This party opposed extending slavery into new territories, although many members were not abolitionists
What is the Free-Soil Party?
This senator proposed the Compromise of 1850 to settle disputes over slavery.
Who is Henry Clay?
Many Northern workers opposed the expansion of slavery because they feared competition from this type of labor
What is enslaved labor?
This law required the return of escaped enslaved people, even from free states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe portrayed slavery as a moral problem.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This party was also known as the Know-Nothing Party and favored native-born Americans over immigrants.
What is the American Party?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The Southern economy relied heavily on this system to provide labor for cash crops
What is slavery?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Kansas territory earned its nickname because of violent conflicts between proslavery and antislavery groups
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This earlier political party split between Northern and Southern members over slavery.
What is the Whig Party?
This senator debated Abraham Lincoln seven times during the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
What major issue caused growing political conflict between the North and South during the 1850s?
What is the expansion of slavery?
This proposed law would have banned slavery in territory acquired from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
This abolitionist led a raid on a federal arsenal in Harpers Ferry in 1859 in an attempt to start a slave uprising.
Who is John Brown?
This antislavery party pursued abolition through laws and influenced the presidential election of 1844.
What is the Liberty Party?
This Supreme Court chief justice delivered the Dred Scott decision in 1857.
Who is Roger B. Taney?