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Who was elected president of the United States in 1860 which caused many in the South to be angry?

Abraham Lincoln

100
In 1854, Congress passed a law that allowed settlers in these territories to decide for themselves what to do about slavery, a concept known as popular sovereignty. What territories were these?
Kansas and Nebraska
100
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
100

 Also known as the North, was composed of the U.S. states that were loyal to the U.S. federal government led by President Abraham Lincoln. Altogether, it included 20 free states and 5 border states.

The Union

100

What was the formal name of the "New South" after seceding from the Union?

The Confederate States of America

200
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
200

What part of the country benefitted from tariffs? How so?

The North; tariffs on imported goods made them more expensive to buy so more people would then buy American-made goods.

200

This law, passed in 1820, established Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. It also created an invisible line across the US; north of the line would be free, south would be slave.

The Missouri Compromise or the Compromise of 1820.

200

Though many farms still existed in the North, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?

Manufacturing (or factories.)

200

What was much of the South's economy based upon?

Agriculture/Farming/Agrarian

300

President of the Confederacy

Jefferson Davis

300
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
300
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
300

What did many from the North feel government's structure should be?

The FEDERAL GOVERNMENT should be strong.

300

These were laws relating to slavery and enslaved people, specifically regarding the Atlantic slave trade and slavery in the Americas. Most were concerned with the rights and duties of free people in regards to enslaved people.

Slave Codes

400

This person would risk her life to return to the South nineteen times to help others escape to freedom. She was also known as "Moses."

Harriet Tubman

400
Name at least two places that runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad headed to.
The North, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico.
400

Which event decided that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them?

Dred Scott Decision

400

The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.

Popular Sovereignty

400
Name at least four states that seceded from the Union.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas
500
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth were involved in what reform movement?
The Abolitionist Movement
500
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter, South Carolina
500

This was the  immediate cause of the secession of southern states from the Union prior to the start of the Civil War.

The election of Abraham Lincoln to the presidency was the cause.

500
Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
500

Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? Why?

Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves ANYWHERE they wanted as slaves were considered PROPERTY.