Vocab
What is the term that means you are only focused on your area of the country?
Sectionalism
In the Missouri Compromise, all states north of the dividing line would be…
Free
Who led a famous slave rebellion resulting in the death of 60 white farmers?
Nat Turner
Majority of the country voted for Lincoln
Only about 40% did.
What was the economy of the South based on?
Agriculture
What term means allowing the people to decide (vote)?
Popular Sovereignty
In the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would be a slave state and Maine was a_____ state.
Free
What was the impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the North?
Opened their eyes to slavery and the horrors of it and turned more people against slavery
Frederick Douglass didn’t like his country and wanted to leave.
False!
He valued the founding fathers and their efforts but wanted the country to open their eyes and be free for all.
Which newly-formed party did Abraham Lincoln represent in the 1860 election?
Republican
What term means a conflict within a country?
Civil War
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do to the Missouri Compromise?
Abolished it/Nullified it
What was a main cause of the event Bleeding Kansas?
Northerners and Southerners trying to get the vote to go in their favor
South Carolina was the first state to secede.
True!
Where did Lincoln want to stop the spread of slavery?
In the new territories
What is the term that describes people who want to end slavery?
Abolitionist
What compromise allowed California to enter the union as a free state?
Compromise of 1850
Which law required Northerners to assist Southerners in capturing escaped slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
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The Northern economy was profiting greatly from agriculture, while the Southern economy was based on manufacturing.
False!
It should read- The Northern economy was profiting greatly from manufacturing, while the Southern economy was based on agriculture.
What was the political platform for Stephen Douglas?
popular sovereignty—allowing territorial settlers, rather than Congress, to decide whether to permit slavery.
What term means to break away from a country?
Secede
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act say?
The states would decide with Popular Sovereignty
What did John Brown hope to achieve by his raid at Harper's Ferry?
He wanted to steal the weapons and hand them out to slaves to inspire a revolt.
The Underground Railroad was a secret system to help slaves get to the free North and Canada.
True!
What did the Supreme Court say about slaves in Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Enslaved and free Black people were not U.S. citizens and had no legal standing to sue in federal court.
It ruled that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.