Sectionalism & Regional Differences
What was the North’s economy mainly based on?
Factories and industry
What was the Underground Railroad?
A network of secret routes and safe houses that helped enslaved people escape to freedom
What idea allowed territories to vote on slavery for themselves?
Popular Sovereignty.
What was responsible for the creation of the Kansas and Nebraska territories?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Who won the Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln.
What cash crop was most important to the Southern economy?
Cotton
Which former slave became a famous abolitionist speaker and writer?
Frederick Douglass.
Which law made it easier to capture escaped enslaved people in free states?
The Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the name for the violent conflict over slavery in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas.
Which state seceded from the Union first?
South Carolina.
What is sectionalism?
Loyalty to your region rather than the country, with different regions supporting different ideas and values.
What novel was instrumental in making more people realize the horrors of slavery, and who wrote it?
Uncle Tom's Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe
What failed proposal attempted to ban slavery in new territory gained from Mexico?
Wilmot Proviso
What were pro-slavery settlers from Missouri called?
Border Ruffians.
Who became president of the Confederate States of America?
Jefferson Davis.
What does the term “Antebellum South” mean?
The South before the Civil War, with a culture based on plantations and slavery.
Who was the former enslaved woman who guided many enslaved people to freedom and later worked for the Union Army?
Harriet Tubman.
What Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not U.S. citizens?
Dred Scott v. Sandford.
Who led the Pottawatomie Massacre?
John Brown.
What issue was the main focus of the Lincoln-Douglas Debates?
Slavery and whether it should expand into new territories.
Why was the South against a tariff?
It would increase the price on goods they needed, and really only help the North.
What political party was created to oppose slavery?
The Republican Party.
What compromise admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromise of 1850.
What was John Brown trying to do during the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Start a slave uprising by capturing weapons from a federal arsenal.
Why did Southern states begin to secede after the Election of 1860?
They feared Abraham Lincoln would abolish or restrict slavery.