Important People
He was President of the Confederate States of America
Who was Jefferson Davis
Why were slaves so important to the Southern States?
Growing cotton became very profitable after the invention of the cotton gin.
Another word for tariff
What is tax.
It is where the first shots of the civil war were fired by southern soldiers.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina
She wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
Who was our 16th President?
Who is Abraham Lincoln
Was a belief that americans had a god given right to expand the country to the Pacific Ocean.
What was manifest Destiny
The invention that made slave more valuable.
What was the cotton gin
What event pushed South Carolina to secede from the Union?
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Dred Scott
what Vice President resigned to fight high tariffs in 1832?
Who is John C. Calhoun
Why did the Northern States favor high tariffs on imported goods from Europe?
What is they wanted to protect their companies from foreign competition.
servitude in exchange for passage to the United States
What is indentured servent
Why did the south believe Lincoln would free all slaves?
What is he gave speeches that denounced slavery.
He faced Abraham Lincoln in a series of debates in the 1858 Illinois Senate campaign?
Who is Stephen Douglas
This man organized a raid on the Harper's Ferry arsenal to try and start a slave rebellion.
Who was John Brown.
Allowing settlers in a territory to decide for themselves if they wanted slavery or not was called:
what is popular Sovereignty
What does emancipation mean?
What is freedom.
A Supreme Court decision that stated that slaves were not citizens of the United States.
What was the Dred Scott decision
He was our country's 15th President and did nothing to solve the slave debate.
Who is James Buchannon
She started the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman
What idea in the 1830's proposed that line between slave states and free states be established at latitude 36 degrees.
What was the Missouri Compromise
What means to drop out or leave?
what is secession or secede
What was the Compromise of 1850
Northern group of people who had very strong feelings against slavery in the the South.
who are Abolitionists