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North
South
Slavery
States' Rights
Past Times
100
About ____________ Northerners lived in urban areas by 1860.
About a quarter
100
The _______ soil and _____ climate of the South made ideal for ____________ farms and crops like ________ and _______.
fertile, warm, large scale, tobacco, cotton
100
White bond servants, ______ their passage across the ocean from ______ through indentured _____, _____but didnt _____the problem.
paying, Europe, labor, eased, solve
100
The original ____________ banned slavery but Virginia wouldn't _______ it, and _____________wouldn't ratify the document without a ____ __ ______.
Constitution, accept, Massachusetts, Bill of Rights
100
_______ was a popular way to pass the time between battles and marches. Soldiers read _______, __________, ______, ___ _____, and any other printed material they could find. They would even sometimes _____ newspapers with their _________.
Reading, letters, newspapers, novels, the Bible, trade, opponents
200
70%, 40%Between 1800 and 1860, the percentage of laborers working in agricultural pursuits dropped drastically from _____ to only _____.
70%, 40%
200
_____ of the labor force worked on a farm.
80%
200
In 1793, ___ _______ invented the cotton gin.
Eli Whitney
200
There was a debate as to whether _______ would be allowed in the new territories forming as the ______ expanded ________.
slavery, nation, westward
200
_____ was a popular diversion, as well-from ________ singing around the fire to staged balls.
Music, informal
300
An overwhelming majority of immigrants, _______ out of every _______, settled in the North rather than the South
seven, eight
300
There were __ million blacks and _____ million whites.
4, 5.5
300
White Southerners argued that _____ people, like children, were _________ of caring for themselves and that _______ was a benevolent institution that kept them ___, _______, and ________.
black, incapable, slavery, fed, clothed, occupied
300
The ___________________ in 1820 tried to solve the problem but only succeeded for a short amount of time. ____________ groups sprung up in the _____, making the ___________ feel that their way of life was _____ ______. This led to a _____ ______ forcing the South to close ranks against critisism out of fear for theis lives. The South argued that slavery wasn't only _________, but it was good as well.
Missouri Compromise, Abolitionist, North, Southerners, under attack, slave revolt, necessary
300
________ prevailed in every conceivable form-from _____ races to _____ races. Games like _____, _____, ________, and ________ could be played for money or simply just for fun, were quiet, and ______ carried in a ________. ____ games such as _____, __________, ____, and ______ were played on ____ sides of the line, but by the last years of battle, _____ of cards were ____ to come by in the Southern ranks.
Gambling, horse, louse, cards, chess, checkers, dominoes, easily, knapsack, Card, poker, twenty-one, keno, euchre, both, decks, hard
400
Transportation was easier in the North, which boasted more than _______ of the _______________ in the country.
2/3, railroad tracks
400
As adults, Southern men tended to belong to the ____________ political party and gravitated toward military careers as well as _____________.
Democratic, agriculture
400
A book writen by Harriet Beecher Stowe went against the Southern _____ that blacks were _____ as ______.
myths, happy, slaves
400
As the _____ and the _____ became more _________, their _____ and _______ also started to become very different. The North's economic ________ and the South's economy _______ was just even more to add to the fires of resentment.
North, South, different, goals, desites, progress, failing
400
More ________ games included _________, ______, ________, ______ on ____ or on _________, _______, and-at least in one instance-_______ using ______ _____ to knock down rough ______ pins. ________, played ___________ than it is today, was another popular sport.
athletic, wrestling, boxing, leapfrog, racing, foot, horseback, cricket, bowling, cannon balls, wooden, baseball, differently
500
Far more _____________ than _____________ belonged to the Whig/Republican political party. These people were far _____ likely to have careers in business, _________, or education.
Northerners, Southerners, more, medicine
500
Only _____ of the nation's ____________ were located in the South.
35%, train tracks
500
The United States Supreme Court in the 1857 Dred Scott Decision ruled that slaves were _________________ with no rights of ___________.
subhuman property, citizenship
500
When ____________ Republican _______ _______ won the presidential election in 1860, Southerners were sure that the North meant to take away their right to ______ themselves and _______ the Southern economy.
anti-slavery, Abraham Lincoln, govern, destroy
500
In ______, the soldiers would do activities such as ___ _______, ________, and ________ "snow effigies." A more _______ winter game would be the ________ ______. Even ________ joined in the battles, which often resulted in _____ ____, _______, and an occasional ______ ____.
winter, ice skating, sledding, building, violent, snowball battle, officers, black eyes, bruises, broken limb