Vocabulary
The United States as one country
union
Compared to the North, the South had more
plantations
The Fugitive Slave Law that was part of the Compromise of 1850 said that...
officials in the North would help capture fugitive, or runaway, slaves.
a state in which it was not legal to own slaves
free state
to officially withdraw from a government or a country
secede
Compared to the South, the North had more
factories
TRUE OR FALSE: Kansas was called “Bleeding Kansas” in the 1850s because of deadly diseases among settlers.
False
a state in which it was legal to own slaves
slave state
a system in which abolitionists secretly helped escaping slaves reach freedom
Underground Railroad
What was the most important crop in the south by the mid-1800s?
cotton
Which group of people were most angry about the election of Abraham Lincoln?
Southern slave owners
Seven Southern states chose to ______ or withdraw from the United States.
secede
a person who wanted to end, or abolish, slavery
abolitionist
TRUE OR FALSE: Keeping an equal amount of slave states and free states was a goal of the Missouri Compromise?
True
Why were workers in the North called "free labor"?
They could choose their own jobs
Which state besides Missouri was formed by the Missouri Compromise?
Maine
conflict fought from 1861 to 1865 between the states that remained in the Union and the states that seceded and formed the Confederacy
Civil War
the nation formed by the 11 states that left the Union
Confederacy
TRUE OR FALSE: California was admitted to the Union as a slave state due to the Compromise of 1850?
False
The Confederate attack on Fort Sumter on April 12, 1861 is important why?
It was the start of the Civil War