Slavery and Expansion
1820 compromise: Missouri slave, Maine free, line at 36°30
Missouri Compromise
Compromise of 1850 admitted this state as free.
What is California
John Brown attacked this federal armory
Harper's Ferry
The North’s economy was more based on this than plantations.
Industry/Manufacturing
1860 election winner who many Southerners feared
Abraham Lincoln
Idea that settlers vote to decide slavery in a territory.
This law required Northerners to return escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Law
Brown hoped the raid would start this.
Slave Rebellion
The South relied heavily on this labor system.
Slave Labor
Term for leaving the Union.
Secession
1857 case: said enslaved people weren’t citizens and Congress couldn’t ban slavery in territories.
Dred Scott Decision
Senator beaten with a cane after giving an anti-slavery speech
Charles Sumner
Kansas incident where Brown killed pro-slavery settlers.
Pottawatomie Massacre?
One reason the North grew faster: more of this infrastructure
Railroads
The battle that started the Civil War
Fort Sumter
Violence in Kansas caused by the slavery debate had this nickname.
Bleeding Kansas
Book that fueled abolitionist sentiment by showing slavery’s cruelty.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
After Harpers Ferry, Brown became a martyr in the North and a symbol of terror in the ___.
The South
Explain how tariffs created tension between regions.
What is that the North supported tariffs to protect industry, while the South opposed tariffs because it relied on trade/cotton exports and imported goods?
Why did the election of 1860 trigger secession even before Lincoln took office?
What is that Lincoln’s election signaled slavery’s long-term decline/containment; Southern states decided to leave before changes could be imposed?
Explain how popular sovereignty actually increased conflict instead of reducing it.
What is that popular sovereignty led to violence because both sides rushed settlers in to control voting, causing conflict?
Connect the Compromise of 1850 to the rise of the Republican Party.
What is it that the Compromise of 1850 (and especially the Fugitive Slave Law) pushed Northerners toward anti-slavery politics, helping spark the Republican Party?
What ended up happening to John Brown
He was hung
Describe TWO differences and explain how each contributed to secession.
hat are two valid differences + explanation (industry vs agriculture; immigrant labor vs enslaved labor; urbanization vs rural plantations; tariff support vs tariff opposition, etc.)
Give the “chain reaction” from 1860 election → secession → Fort Sumter
What is: Lincoln wins (1860) → Southern states secede → conflict over federal forts → Fort Sumter attacked?