People
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
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all tried to settle what problem?
Slavery
What was the sentiment (or feeling) about slavery in the North?
Against it.
What was the feeling about slavery in the south?
For it.
Who was vehemently against slavery and tried to start a rebellion at Harper's Ferry?
John Brown
Nat Turner
Frederick Douglass
What part of the country benefited 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.
Though many farms still existed in the north, more and more of its economy was becoming based on what?
Manufacturing (or factories.)
What was much of the South's economy based upon?
Agriculture (or farming.)
Who was president of the Confederacy?
Stonewall Jackson
Jefferson Davis
Alexander H. Stevens
Which part of the country felt that state governments should have more power than the federal government?
South
The Fugitive Slave Law required people to do what (even if they disagreed with slavery)?
Return runaway slaves to their owners.
What did many from the North feel government's structure should be?
The Federal government should be strong.
What did many in the south feel the structure of government should be?
States should have equal or more power than the federal government.
Why would Harriet Tubman risk her life to return to the south nineteen times to help others escape to freedom?
She knew what it was like to be a slave and wanted to help others reach freedom.
Name at least two places that runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad headed to.
The North, Canada, Caribbean, Mexico.
The Dred Scott decision was a blow to the abolitionist movement. Why?
The Supreme Court ruled that slaves were property, no matter where their owners took them.
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Name at least four states that seceded from the Union.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, Arkansas
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth were involved in what reform movement?
The Abolitionist Movement
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Fort Hood
Fort Henry
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.
Name the book that convinced many in the North that slavery was wrong.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
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.