States
This state became a state after the California Gold Rush
California!
Cause: Popular sovereignty
Effect in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas--a micro war over slavery
Did the North or South have more railroads?
What are people who worked to fight slavery called?
Abolitionists
Explain one cultural difference (besides slavery) in the North and the South during the first half of the 1800s
North had more education, South had less
South was rural, North was urban
More abolitionists in North, way fewer in South
Before the Gold Rush, California, Utah, New Mexico and Texas were all a part of this country
Mexico
It entered as a free state which upset the South
What crop was the economic engine of the South?
Cotton
Why did the result of the Dred Scott decision help cause the Civil War?
It angered Northerners and Abolitionists because they thought it was unfair that a black man could not be free in a free state
What was the line called that was established after the first Missouri Compromise?
The Missouri Compromise line (36' 30')
These two states used popular sovereignty to decide on the free/slave state question
Kansas and Nebraska
What was an effect of the Mexican-American war?
The US won the war and got about half of Mexico
Name two states that joined the country after 1820 that became slave states
Missouri and Texas
How did Utah, New Mexico, Kansas and Nebraska decide which kind of State to become
Popular Sovereignty (people voted)
This Southern state that used to be a part of Mexico entered the US as a slave state
Texas
What were three effects of the 1850 Missouri Compromise?
Fugitive Slave Law
California is a free state
Slave trade banned in DC but slavery still legal there
Explain how the North made money off of slavery
They turned cotton into fabric and sold it for cash, getting rich of slave labor
Tell us three things about the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law
fined for helping "slaves"
"slaves" couldn't defend themselves in court
people could be imprisoned for helping slaves or trying to
people who owned slaves could come to free states to steal them back
What did the Wilmot Proviso say?
It was an attempt to stop territory acquired by the US from the Mexican-American war from becoming slave states. It didn't work and it made the North upset.
Missouri
Name three effects of popular sovreignty after the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bleeding Kansas
The Civil War
Explain how technology, geography and slavery combined to make the cotton industry so rich
Slaves worked for free, and the tech of the cotton gin and steamboats allowed for cheap production and easy shipping of cotton, which was easy to grow in the warm, humid, Southern soil.
Explain the basic reason why slavery made the South rich?
SLAVERY = FREE LABOR
What were the major political parties before the Civil War. Name at least three
Democratic Republicans, Republicans, Whigs, Free Soil, Know-Nothing