Characteristics of the North
What kind of states did the North have? (Hint: Free or Slave states are your options)
Free States
What kind of states did the South have? (Hint: Free or Slave states are your options)
Slave States
What are States' Rights?
The rights and powers held by the state governments, rather than the federal government.
A person who is legally owned as property by another person.
A slave
This word means to make something. It was the main industry in the North.
Manufacture
Were the people in the North paid for the work that they did?
Yes, they were.
Were the people in the South paid for the work that they did?
No, they were not.
What is the opposite of States' Rights?
The federal government
To end or prohibit by law.
Abolish
Name a Northern city or state.
New York, New York City, Ohio...
Did the North contain small or large cities?
Large
Name one crop that was grown in the South.
Cotton or Tobacco
Which region wanted the states to decide on their own laws? (Hint: they wanted to make their own decisions)
The South
A person who has escaped from a place or who is hiding to avoid capture or arrest.
A fugitive
A system of secret routes used by free people in the North and South that helped fugitive slaves escape to freedom; was not an actual railroad.
The Underground Railroad
The South wanted to keep slavery ____. (Hint: Legal or Illegal)
Which region wanted the federal government to make the law? (Hint: they wanted everyone to follow the same rules)
The North
A large farm where crops are raised to be sold.
A piece of land owned by a country that does not have the FULL rights of a state. (Hint: Puerto Rico, Guam)
A territory
This was the main industry in the North. (Hint: it's what people did for work)
Manufacturing
The south was an _____ region. (Hint: long word, deals with farming)
Agricultural
In a state, what is the name of the person who makes/enforces the laws? (Hint: For the federal government, it is the president)
The Governor
Someone who wanted to end slavery.
An abolitionist
This law/act allowed slave-catchers to enter the North to recapture their fugitive slaves.
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850