By 1860, most African-Americans lived in this region of the US.
What is the Deep South?
100
In the decades before the Civil War, the southern economy relied heavily on agriculture and slave labor. The northern economy featured these three main components.
What are agriculture, trade, and manufacturing?
100
This international event led to intense conflicts between the North and South over slavery in the US.
What is the Mexican-American War?
100
Shortly after the Compromise of 1850 was agreed to, this began to happen.
What is the unraveling of the Compromise of 1850?
100
Poor whites thought of themselves as more like the wealthy plantation owners than like this group of people.
Who are slaves?
200
Breaking tools, working slowly, and pretending not to understand what was expected of them were ways that slaves did this.
What is rebelled?
200
This novel convinced many Northerners that slavery was morally wrong.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
The proposal to outlaw slavery in the territory ceded by Mexico was known by this name.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
200
Lincoln won election without winning any states in this region.
What is the South?
200
The Southern economy remained the same while the Northern economy diversified because this group of people wanted to preserve their way of life.
What is wealthy planters?
300
This Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were not citizens and did not have Constitutional Rights.
What is Dred Scott?
300
Many Northerners were upset that this law required them to assist in returning runaway slaves to their masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
This is the practice of allowing the people in each territory to decide the question of slavery for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
In his first inaugural address, Lincoln expressed moderate views on slavery but staunchly opposed this issue.
What is secession?
300
The Upper South did not secede immediately when the Lower South did, because they did not share this important feature.
What is a reliance on slave labor?
400
African-American Christianity, the form of Christianity created and practiced by slaves, focused on this core value.
What is justice?
400
This was the major issue that led up to the Compromise of 1850.
What is the balance of power in Congress?
400
The legislature formed in this territory was fraudulent and led to the creation of a second, rival government and eventually guerilla warfare.
What is Kansas?
400
In 1860, the Democratic Party split into these two groups.
What are Southern Democrats and Northern Democrats?
400
Slaves were heavily outnumbered in the South, which was one reason that they did not attempt open revolt. Another reason was their lack of access to this.
What are weapons?
500
The legal restrictions placed on free blacks in the South included (among other things) special taxes, a prohibition from interstate travel, and a requirement to carry these at all times.
What are "freedom papers"?
500
This was the first state that voted to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
500
Two groups of people supported the Wilmot Proviso: those who supported abolition, and those who wanted this.
What is white settlement of the West?
500
As the Republican Party grew stronger, they expanded beyond slavery and included these issues in their platform. (Name one of three.)
What are free homesteads, the transcontinental railroad, and rights for immigrants?
500
By 1860, this percentage of the world's cotton was grown in the U.S.