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Causes of the Civil War I
Causes of the Civil War II
Causes of the Civil War III
Vocabulary I
Vocabulary II
100
The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.
What is slavery?
100

This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage in the North and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

100

  • Cities and towns were
    trade centers, factories, paid labor source,
    few slaves and many immigrants

What is the North?

100

did not permit slavery

What is a free state?

100
A person who is running away from the law.
What is a fugitive?
200
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200

Who spoke with direct and deliberate tone focusing on how slavery was a struggle between right and wrong; thought African Americans were entitled to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness

What is Abraham Lincoln?

200

the right of people to make political decisions for themselves

What is popular sovereignty?

200
Nickname given to a state where violence and bloodshed broke out after it was decided that citizens would vote on the slavery issue.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300

Abraham Lincoln wasn't on the ballot in ten of the southern states.

What was the Election of 1860?

300

This act allowed two midwestern territories to vote on the slavery issue. It led to violence and bloodshed, particularly in one state.

What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?

300

the belief that states, not the federal government should make final decisions on things that affect them

What are states' rights?

300

chief justice of the Supreme Court that ruled against Dred Scott

Who is Roger B. Taney?

300

an Illinois politician, rival to Lincoln, who supported the Kansas-Nebraska Act

Who is Stephen Douglas?

400
This compromise stated that slavery would not be permitted in territory from the Louisiana Purchase above 36 degrees latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This man raided a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to arm slaves for an uprising. He was stopped by the military and hanged for his actions.
Who is John Brown?
400

followers believed a territory’s voters should decide themselves whether to allow slavery

What is popular sovereignty?

400

when part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country

What is secession?

400

permitted slavery

What is a slave state?

500

This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, banned the sale of slaves in DC, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.

What is the Compromise of 1850?

500
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500

the name eleven southern states called themselves

What is the Confederacy or the Confederate States of America?

500

a group that unites for a purpose

What is a confederation?

500

Union

What is the United States?