Vocab
What was an Abolitionist?
Someone who wanted to end slavery
What is secession?
When a state leaves the Union
What is the main cash crop of the South during this time?
Cotton
The main issue that causes the Civil War
Slavery
What was the Sacking of Lawrence?
Pro-Slave forces burned down and looted the anti-slave town of Lawrence Kansas
What was a Conductor?
Person on the Underground Railroad who helped people escape slavery
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Conductor and runaway slave who helped people on the Underground Railroad
Fugitive Slave Act
Says that slave hunters can go into Northern states to capture runaway slaves. Slaves have to get to Canada to escape
Republican Party
Political Party created in 1854 to oppose Slavery
Election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln won the Election of 1860 and became the 16th President
What was the Underground Railroad?
A series of escape routes and houses to help runaway slaves escape slavery
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Won the 1860 Presidential Election and became the 16th President
Missouri Compromise
Missouri joins as a Slave state, Maine joins as a free state, anything North of the Mason Dixon Line (36 30 Parallel) slavery is banned
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Which of these events comes first?
1. Bleeding Kansas
2. Caning of Sumner
3. John Browns Raid
Bleeding Kansas (1855)
What is Sectionalism?
The belief that someone is more loyal to a section of their country rather than the whole country
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Compromise of 1850
1. California joins as a Free State
2. Mexican Cession divided in 2
3. Ends the Slave Trade in Washington DC
4. Strict Fugitive Slave Act
Bleeding Kansas
Pro-Slavery and Anti-Slavery people fight and kill each other to help their side win the vote
Sacking of Lawrence: Pro-slavery people burn the Anti-Slavery town of Lawrence
John Brown kills 5 pro-slavery neighbors
Caning of Sumner
Preston Brooks beats Charles Sumner wiht a cane on the floor of Congress after Sumner gave a speech talking about how horrible slavery is
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The people of the territory vote as to whether the state will be a slave state or a free stae
Who was John Brown?
An abolitionist who used violence to fight slavery
John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry
John Brown attacked the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry to try and start a slave rebellion.
He fails, is captured and executed
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott was a free man who sued for his freedom. The Supreme Court said that in 1857 African Americans were not considered citizens
Put the following events in Chronological Order
1. Fugitive Slave Act
2. Election of 1860
3. John Browns Raid
4. Bleeding Kansas
5. Dred Scott Decision
6. Compromise of 1850
7. Republican Party
8. Kansas-Nebraska Act
9. Missouri Compromise
10. Uncle Toms Cabin
11. Caning of Sumner
1. Missouri Compromise (1820)
2. Compromise of 1850 (1850)
3. Fugitive Slave Act (1850)
4. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852)
5. Republican Party (1854)
6. Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)
7. Bleeding Kansas (1855)
8. Caning of Sumner (1856)
9. Dred Scott Decision (1857)
10. John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry (1859)
11. Election of 1860 (1860)