5th Grade Civil War

Causes

100

This act allowed residents in Kansas to vote whether a state would be a slave or free state. 

Kansas-Nebraska Act

200

This event ignited the Civil War

Election of 1860

300

The compromise also banned slavery from any future territories or states north of Missouri’s southern border.

Missouri Compromise of 1820

400

This act set severe penalties for anyone who helped an enslaved person escape from slavery.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850

500

suggested that the territories of New Mexico and Utah be open to slavery and that the Fugitive Slave Act become stricter.

Compromise of 1850

Slavery

100

People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?

abolitionists

200

What invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?

Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin

300

What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?

The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations

400

What about the southern economy made slavery seem necessary?

They were primarily agricultural and needed labor to help grow crops

500

a system of enforced servitude

slavery

Random

100

loyalty to one’s own region

Sectionalism

200

A loose union of independent states; name of government used by the southern states that seceded during the Civil War.

Confederacy

300

The states that did not secede.

Union (north)

400

What did the disagreements over slavery, state rights, & sectionalism caused?

Civil War

500

The northern economy grew slowly while the southern economy grew very rapidly. 

True or False

False