North
This region of the United States had an economy largely based on this industry, rather than agriculture.
What is manufacturing?
Elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the south to be angry.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1850 law required Northerners to return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the first battle of the Civil War, occurring in April 1861.
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
This was the main cash crop of the South, heavily reliant on enslaved labor.
What is cotton?
The North favored these types of taxes on imported goods to protect its industries from foreign competition.
What are tariffs?
Against slavery and started a rebellion at Harper's Ferry to initiate a slave revolt in Southern states.
Who is John Brown?
Reason why slavery increased tension between the North & South.
What is the demand for cheap labor to work on plantations in the Americas?
This 1863 battle is often seen as a turning point in favor of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was the name of the Southern states that seceded from the Union.
What is the Confederate States of America (or Confederacy)?
North believe the government should be structured this way.
What is a strong federal government?
This author wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, a novel that fueled abolitionists movement sentiment in the North.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This controversial 1857 Supreme Court case rules that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This early battle in 1861 showed both sides that the war would be bloodier and longer than anticipated.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
The South believed in this principle, which argued that states had the right to nullify federal laws.
What are states' rights?
What is the Republican Party?
This famous Abolitionist and former enslaved person wrote an autobiography detailing his life and escape.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The idea that states could decide for themselves whether to allow slavery was known by this term.
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle on the Mississippi River gave the North control over the river, splitting the Confederacy.
What is the battle of Vicksburg?
This state was the first to secede from the Union in December of 1860.
What is South Carolina?
The book which convinced people in the North that slavery if wrong.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Known as the "Great Compromiser," this senator helped craft multiple compromises to ease tensions over slavery.
Who is Henry Clay?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act let to violence in this region, earning it a bloody nickname.
This 1862 battle in Maryland was the bloodiest single day battle in American history.
What was the battle of Antietam?
The South had fewer factories and less industry than the North, making it more and more reliant on this kind of economy.
What is an agricultural (or agrarian) economy?