Life in the South
Crops like Cotton and Tobacco fueled the economy in the South. These types of crops are typically called this.
What is a Cash Crop
The federal government had a high amount of these to generate money. Most of it went to the North for things like railroads and canals.
What are tariffs?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 drew an imaginary line on the 36th Degree North Latitude Line and divided the Louisiana Territory in half. It effectively made everything north of the line a this.
What is a Free State?
The Compromise of 1850 made California one of these kinds of states.
What is a Free State?
This conflict marked the start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
The Federal Government used a lot of money on this. However, most of these were not made in the South.
What are Railroads?
The North was not reliant on farming, and instead had an economy based on this.
What is Manufacturing or Trading?
Popular Sovereignty argues that states should be allowed to vote on their own laws. Southern Democrats believed that these kind of rights were vital to Democracy.
What are States Rights?
The Missouri Compromise made Missouri and everything south of the 36th Degree line these kind of states.
What is a Slave State?
This man was responsible for attempting to start a slave uprising in Harpers Ferry Virginia. He claimed the South's crimes could only be purged with bloodshed!
Who is John Brown?
When this happened in late 1860, Democrats in the south were extremely concerned about the Republicans getting rid of slavery. This was the reason states began to leave the Union.
What is the Election of 1860/Abraham Lincoln?
The Republican Party formed out of frustration with Southern Democrats, but focused on their agreed opposition to this.
What is slavery?
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromise of 1850 and the Missouri Compromise are both credited to this individual. He also came up with the American System and his last name is the same as a material in the ground.
Who is Henry Clay?
Dred Scott argued he was a free man because he lived for a while in a free state. The US Supreme court argued the Missouri Compromise was this, effectively ruling the law wasn't recognized by the court of law.
What is unconstitutional?
After States left the Union and formed the CSA, this man was named the first president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Capital of the United States is located in this city. What made it difficult was it was located rather close to Virginia, which was a Confederate State.
What is Washington D.C
Stephen Douglas proposed a bill to allow popular sovereignty in the Nebraska and Kansas Territories. Since these regions were above the line of this compromise in 1820, the Kansas-Nebraska Act would basically reverse this Compromise.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The reaction to the Compromise of 1850 was rather mixed. Southerners wanted states rights, while the Northerners were only signing off to do this to the Union.
What is Preserve?
When the Kansas Nebraska Act was proposed, people within the regions fought over whether or not slavery was to be permitted in the region. This conflict, given this name, was the first sign of a physical Civil War was almost unavoidable.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
When the Confederate States formed, they named this city in Virginia to become the Capital of the CSA.
What is Richmond?
United in their opposition to slavery, this political party was typically popular in the free states of the North as tensions over slavery grew throughout the Union.
What is the Republican Party?
When Abraham Lincoln was elected, pretty soon after this state left the union to work on forming a new nation founded on states rights.
What is South Carolina?
This is the term used to describe settling for something to try and please or keep something else in tact. This term is usually described as how the North kept backing down from big issues with the South to keep the Union together. The first three letters of this term is what a program on your phone's home screen is called.
What is appeasement?
This new nation under President Jefferson Davis, feared Republican takeover of states rights and the end of slavery. It consisted of 11 states including some like Alabama, Florida and Texas.
What are the Confederate States of America? (CSA)