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North and South
The Fight for Freedom
A Nation Divided
Civil War Begins
100
The region's economy was agricultural, or mostly based on farming.
What is the South?
100
This is someone who joined the movement to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
100
This kind of state permitted slavery.
What is a slave state?
100
This president strongly believed that Union should not be allowed to split apart.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
This is a tax on imported goods.
What is a tariff?
200
This is the unfair treatment towards particular groups.
What is discrimination?
200
This kind of state did not permit slavery.
What is a free state?
200
This is when a part of the country leaves or breaks off from rest.
What is secession?
300
This region's economy had an increase in the number of factories producing textiles, shoes, tools, and other goods.
What is the North?
300
This was a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of the South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This is a person who is running away from slavery.
What is a fugitive?
300
This is the number of states that left the Union and formed their own government.
What is 11?
400
This term means loyalty to one part of the economy.
What is sectionalism?
400
She was the most famous conductor on the Underground Railroad. After escaping slavery, she returned 19 times to help others to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
This is the author of Uncle John's Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The attack on this marked the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
500
After this was invented in 1793, southern farmers wanted more slaves to work on their fields.
What is the cotton gin?
500
In 1831, he began printing an antislavery newspaper called The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
In 1854, Congress passed this act, giving popular sovereignty to the Kansas and Nebraska territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
This state withdrew from the Union first.
What is South Carolina?