Causes of Sectionalism
This crop was the foundation of the southern economy.
Cotton
This 1820 compromise maintained the balance between free and slave states.
Missouri Compromise
This book was published in 1852 by Harriet Beecher Stowe and increased northern opposition to slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who was the slave in the 1857 Supreme Court case that increased tensions leading up to the Civil War?
Dred Scott
This concept justified the belief that the U.S. had God-given right to expand across North America.
Manifest Destiny
This invention increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.
Cotton Gin
Name the event that led Southern states to begin seceding from the Union.
Lincoln's election
The North's economy relied heavily on this type of industry.
Manufacturing
Name one component of the Compromise of 1850
California Free
Stricter Fugitive Slave Law
Popular Sovereignty in other Mexican Cession Areas
Banning of Slave Trade in DC
Name the radical abolitionist that led the raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
John Brown
The Dred Scott Court case invalidated what earlier compromise?
Missouri
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and expanded U.S. territory.
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
Many southerners called this 1828 policy an abomination.
Tariff
This 1856 violent event in the U.S. Senate involved a Congressman beating a Senator.
Caning of Charles Sumner
Southern leaders argued for this concept over federal laws.
States Rights
This 1854 law called for popular sovereignty to be used to determine slavery in these western territories.
KS-NE Act
She was known as the "Moses of her people", helping slaves escape
Harriet Tubman
Which state was Dred Scott brought to in which he declared he should be free?
Wisconsin
This treaty was created to add land at the southern border for a possible railroad.
Gadsden Purchase
This transportation advancement helped connect Northern markets to the West.
Railroads
This series of violent conflicts in Kansas emerged over whether it would be free or slave territory.
Bleeding Kansas
Name the Political party of Abraham Lincoln.
Republican Party
This person came to national fame over his Spot Resolutions related to the Mexican American War
Abe Lincoln
This escaped slave became a leading abolitionist speaker and published The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Where did the Dred Scott case make slavery legal?
Essentially, everywhere.
This person is the most dominant Oregon Trail player in this classroom.
Mr. Zar
Name for an economic downturn. It happened in 1819, 1837, and 1857.
Panic
This 1831 slave rebellion in Virginia increased fears of uprisings in the South.
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This term describes loyalty to one’s region rather than the nation as a whole.
Sectionalism
Who proposed the idea of of Popular Sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
This person was the editor of the anti-slavery newspaper, The Liberator.
William Lloyd Garrison
Who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court that wrote the decision in the Dred Scott case?
Roger Taney
Which political party was effectively destroyed by the KS-NE Act?
The Whigs
The Know Nothing Party
This event marked the first shots of the Civil War in April 1861.
Firing on Fort Sumter