Beginning in 1619, black Americans were captured, sold, and owned like property.
What is slavery?
100
Northern states that had abolished (done away with) slavery.
What are free states?
100
In the 1790s this man invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
100
The violence that resulted after congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
Allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state while Maine entered as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
The south relied on these that were grown in large amounts and provided most of the regions wealth.
What are cash crops?
200
States that relied heavily on slaves to work the fields and harvest the crops.
What are slave states?
200
In 1803, he bought the Louisiana Territory from France.
Who is President Thomas Jefferson?
200
The decision made by the Supreme Court that meant a slave master could keep his or her slaves even if they entered a free state.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
200
Senator Henry Clay of Kentucky, helped to work out this compromise that allowed California to enter the Union as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This became the South's most important cash crop.
What is cotton?
300
A fictional story that showed the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
In 1852, she published a fictional book, which showed the cruelty of slavery, titled Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
300
In 1859, the United States arsenal was raided by a white abolitionist and his followers, which resulted in the hanging of the abolitionist a few days later.
What is John Brown's raid?
300
After the Compromise of 1850, people in Utah and New Mexico were allowed to vote on whether or not to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
This machine made processing cotton much faster and made many large land owners wealthy.
What is the cotton gin?
400
The law that said that people in the Kansas and Nebraska territories could decide by popular sovereignty whether or not to have slaves.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
The supreme court ruled against this slave who sued for his freedom after his master died.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Slavery became the main issue during this time and caused the Democratic Party to split.
What is the presidential election of 1860?
400
This law stated that northerners must return runaway slaves to their southern masters.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
500
Huge farms on which large land owners raised their cash crops.
What are plantations?
500
These states relied less on slaves and started to develop more manufacturing and industry.
What are northern states?
500
Southerners did not want him as president because they feared he would try to end slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
500
A movement that existed in the North that was made up of people that wanted to end slavery.
What is the abolitionist movement?
500
Following this, the nation had to decide whether or not to allow slavery further west.