Sectionalism
Region of the United States based on agriculture and slave labor.
What is the South?
Number 1 export in America in the mid 1800s.
What is cotton?
This state was added as a free state in the Compromise of 1850?
What is California?
When people of a state or territory can vote if they want slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
Lead conductor of the Underground Railroad. She returned to the South 19 times and rescued over 300 slaves.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Region of the United States that was based on manufacturing.
What is the North?
The name for a person that wants to end slavery, mostly lived in the North.
What is an abolitionist?
This compromise drew a line at the 36º30'N line dividing the Louisiana Territory into free and slave sections.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Political party of Abraham Lincoln, elected in 1860.
What is the Republican party?
This man proposed the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 and is known as the "Great Compromiser."
Region of the United States that offered cheap abundant land and provided opportunities for mining.
What is the West?
Law that required everyone to help capture runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act (or Law)?
What is Washington, D.C.?
The results of the Election of 1860 proved that the ___________ had more power and votes since Lincoln was not even on the ballot in the South.
What is the North?
Slave that used the Supreme Court to request his freedom and lost his case.
Who is Dred Scott?
These types of taxes divided Northern and Southern states.
What are tariffs?
Approximately 100,000 slaves escaped to the North using this secret network.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Law that ignored the Missouri Compromise and allowed Nebraska and Kansas to have popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott stating he was not a citizen of the United States and was ___________________.
What is property?
Abolitionist, Fanatic, that raided Harper's Ferry to organize a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This event that changed how goods are produced is a major cause of sectionalism.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
Novel that was written to depict the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The violence in Kansas known as Bleeding Kansas started when Border Ruffians from this state voted illegally in Kansas creating a slave territory.
What is Missouri?
Charles Sumner of Massachusetts was beaten in the ________________ for insulting South Carolina Senator.
What is the Senate?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?