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Differences Between the North and South
Fight for Freedom and a Nation Divided
The Civil War Begins
100
A tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
100
This is another name for the United States.
What is the Union?
100
Mostly farming.
What is the South.
100
Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman are all former slaves and this.
What are abolitionists?
100
Abraham Lincoln came from a rich family and didn't have to work. (True or False.)
What is false?
200
The idea that states, not the federal government, should make final decisions about laws and other decisions.
What are states' rights?
200
This is the name of a person who is running away.
What is a fugitive?
200
Mostly manufacturing.
What is the North?
200
This escape route led slaves to freedom in the North, Canada, Mexico and Florida.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
One of the reasons the Southern states left the Union to protect their right to own enslaved people.(True or false.)
What is true?
300
Loyalty to on particular part of the country.
What is sectionalism?
300
A state that does not permit slavery.
What is a free state?
300
Wanted to maintain their right to own slaves.
What is the South?
300
This book depicts the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
This man called slavery a "moral, social and political evil."
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
400
Someone who fought to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
400
A state that permitted slavery.
What is a slave state?
400
Believed in States' Rights.
What is the South.
400
In this court case, the Supreme Court Decided that enslaved people were property and had no rights regardless of where they moved.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
400
The Civil War began after Confederate troops attacked this federal fort.
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter?
500
This is the right of people to make their own political decisions.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
This word describes when one part of a country breaks off from the rest.
What is secession?
500
Believed in a strong Federal government.
What is the North?
500
This man started a rebellion to end slavery by attacking the US Army Post in Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
500
They felt the federal government had become too strong, and their States' Rights were under attack.
How did Southerners feel after the election of 1860?