The South
This was the main issue that caused Southern states to secede was this institution.
Slavery
This slave believed he received visions from god to lead a slave rebellion.
Nat Turner
He was President of the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
This term means to get rid of something.
Abolish
Southern states argued they had the right to leave the Union based on "States _______"
Rights
The South broke away and formed their own country called the _____________.
Confederacy
This is the term for getting slaves from Africa and transporting them to the United States overseas.
Transatlantic Slave Trade
At the start of the war, the North’s main goal was to preserve this.
The Union
This term means to change form or character. (Ex. religion)
convert
These two states were added to the Union during the Missouri Compromise.
Maine and Missouri
The South’s economy relied heavily on this crop.
Cotton
This is the term that describes buying and selling slaves in the United States.
The Domestic Slave Trade
The North had more of these than the South, giving them a production advantage.
Factories
This term means loyalty to a region of a country rather than the country as a whole
Sectionalism
The Kansas-Nebraska act created two sides. One side wanted slaves in the new territories and the other did not. Eventually the fighting within the territories became known as "______________ _____________"
Bleeding Kansas
The capital of the Confederacy was located in this state.
Virginia
In order to gain tighter control over slaves, the South passed stricter laws that limited the rights of slaves even further. These were known as "The Slave ______"
Codes
This 1863 document declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
Emancipation Proclamation
This turn means to set something free.
Emancipate
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
The Dred Scott Decision
This man was the general of the Confederate army during the Battle of Gettysburg.
Robert E Lee
List two reasons why slavery expanded in the United States during the 1800s.
1. The Cotton Gin/increase in cotton production
2. Transatlantic slave trade
3. Domestic Slave Trade
This abolitionist encouraged Black men to join the Union Army.
Fredrick Douglass
This term means to break away from a country and become independent. (Ex. The south did this during the civil war and formed the Confederacy)
Secession
This term is the core principle that a government's power comes from the consent of the people and each state could vote on whether they wanted to allow slavery or ban it in Kansas and Nebraska.
Popular Sovereignty