Causes of the Civil War I
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?
This state was allowed to enter the Union as a free state because of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
Term to describe the mayhem during Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is a Bleeding Kansas?
Where did the ancient Greeks believe their gods lived?
Mount Olympus
This compromise created an invisible line across the United States saying slavery should only be allowed below this line
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Wrote an anti-slavery book that made more people support the abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What is popular sovereignty?
an 1856 Supreme Court case in which a slave sued for his freedom because he had been taken to live in a territory where slavery was illegal.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
What relation to you is your uncle's father?
Grandfather
Abraham Lincoln won this election which pushed the South toward secession.
What was the Election of 1860?
This region of the United States had manufacturing, businesses, factories, banking, and railroads.
What is the North?
the belief that states, not the federal government should make final decisions on things that affect them
What are states' rights?
Sued for freedom in 1857
Who is Dredd Scott?
Massachusetts senator caned
Who is Charles Sumner?
Tom DeLonge, Mark Hoppus and Scott Raynor formed which band?
Blink 182
This was an abolitionist leader who led a raid on Harper's Ferry, Virginia.
Who was John Brown?
Which 2 states decided the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty? (voting)
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
a tax on imported goods that was good for the north and not good for the south
What is a tariff?
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest of the country
What is secession?
Party that argued that slavery should not expand west, but can stay where it is.
What the Free Soil Party?
What year did the Times Square Ball Drop first take place?
1907/8
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This region of the United States had smaller towns, more agriculture, and an economy based on slaves.
What is the South?
President of the 1856 election
Who is James Buchanan?
Loyalty to local interests, customs of one's own region instead of the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise Line
What is the Compromise of 1850?
What is April's birthstone?
Diamond