Vocab
What is the official name of the Northern US states who stayed loyal to the gov't?
Union
Which would you eliminate... Underground Railroad, Abraham Lincoln, or Harriet Tubman?
Lincoln
What is the effect of the Missouri Compromise?
Compromise of 1850
Who would have supported the use of the Underground Railroad?
Which law would a free Northern African American have feared the most?
Fugitive Slave Act
A large farm in the South primarily used to grow cotton
Plantation
Which would you eliminate... Dred Scott, Bleeding Kansas or John Brown?
Dred Scott
What is the effect of Lincoln winning the presidential election of 1860?
Start of the Civil War
Who would have believed that all African Americans deserved the right to read and write?
Frederick Douglass OR Sojourner Truth
Which law kept a balance in the amount of free/slave states?
Missouri Compromise
What does it mean to do away with or end something? THINK... those who wanted to end slavery...
Abolish
Which would you eliminate... Stephen Douglas, Kansas-Nebraska Act, abolitionists
Abolitionists
What is the effect of the Supreme Court's Dred Scott decision?
All African Americans were deemed as NOT US citizens
Who would have believed that violence was the best way to end slavery?
John Brown
Which law was completely dependent on the idea of popular sovereignty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
An attempt to give each side a piece of what they would want
Compromise
Which would you eliminate... Fugitive Slave Act, Emancipation Proclamation, Dred Scott Decision
Emancipation Proclamation
What is the effect of Harriet Beecher Stowe's book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Support for abolition increases in the North.
Who would have desired to keep the country united during the war?
Lincoln
Which law deemed Washington DC as slave free?
Compromise of 1850
The belief that political power comes from the people!
Popular Sovereignty
Which would you eliminate... farming, strong military leadership, greater population?
greater population
What is the effect of Union and Confederate soldiers crammed together in crowded camps with poor sanitation?
Diseases like dysentery are responsible for the deaths of many soldiers.
Who would have agreed with the idea of popular sovereignty?
Stephen Douglas
Which law was put into place by Roger Taney?