Vocabulary
This word means loyalty to your own region over the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
These three words describe the main causes of the Civil War
What are sectionalism, slavery, and states' rights?
The North's economy was based on this, while the South relied on agriculture.
What is industry (factories)
The name for the Northern states that remained loyal to the U.S. federal government.
What is the Union?
Name one compromise that tried but failed to prevent the Civil War.
What is the Missouri Compromise,
The movement to end slavery in the United States.
What is abolition?
This 1820 compromise tried to balance free and slave states by drawing a geographic line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The South's plantations depended heavily on this to grow cash crops.
What is enslaved labor?
The name for the group of Southern states that seceded from the United States.
What is the Confederacy
A disagreement between regions of a country over interests and values is called this.
What is sectionalism?
The act of formally withdrawing from a union or political organization.
What is secession?
This 1854 law let territories decide slavery themselves through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The North favored a strong one of these; the South believed states should have more power.
What is the federal government?
People who supported this movement wanted to end slavery throughout the United States
What is abolition(abolitionists)
Both sides made concessions in these agreements that tried to delay the Civil War.
What are compromises?
The belief that individual states can govern themselves without federal interference.
What are states' rights?
The year Southern states began to formally secede from the Union.
What is 1861?
Cotton and tobacco were the main cash crops of this region
What is the South?
This group feared the federal government would take away their states' right to allow slavery.
Who are Southerners (Southern states)
This big discussion question from today's lesson: Was the Civil War ___?
What is avoidable?
An agreement reached by both sides making concessions; several of these tried to delay the Civil War.
What is a compromise?
This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state but also strengthened the Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The South feared losing this in the U.S. Senate as more free states were added to the Union
What is the balance of power?
These people living in the South who did not own enslaved people still often supported slavery because of this system that shaped their society and economy.
What is the plantation/slave economy (sectionalism)
A student says the Civil War was really about states' rights, not slavery. Using evidence from the lesson, explain why slavery and states' rights were actually connected.
Southern states wanted the right to keep slavery; the two issues cannot be separated.