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Vocabulary
North and South Grow Apart
Resisting Slavery
Struggle over Slavery
First Shots Fired
100
This was made up of states that remained loyal to the U.S. government.
What is Union
100
Loyalty to a section or part of a country rather than to the whole country
What is Sectionalism
100
An organized secret system set up to help enslaved people escape from the South to freedom in the North or Canada
What is Underground Railroad?
100
Law passed dividing the Louisiana Territory into areas prohibiting slavery and areas allowing slavery
What is Missouri Compromise
100
What is a war between people of the same country called?
What is civil war?
200
Idea that people of a state can choose the laws that benefit their needs
What is states rights
200
Where did most southerners live by the 1850's?
What is farms and small towns
200
Name one way that slaves resisted slavery.
Held back on work, broke tools, ran away, broke rules, pretended to be sick
200
What happened in Kansas that led to violence in 1854?
What is Northerners and Southerners disagreed over the results of the slavery vote?
200
What state came into the Union the same time as Missouri?
What is Maine?
300
The 14th President of the United States

What is Franklin Pierce

300
In what region of the U.S. were most of the country's cities located at this time?
What is North?
300

Name the event that took place along Pottawatomie Creek in Kansas on May 24, 1856. 

What is Pottawatomie Massacre.

300
What was the result of the Dred Scott case?
What is The Court said African Americans had no rights.
300

Name one reason the Southern states seceded from the Union.

What is States rights and slavery being abolished

400
Plan which California entered the U.S. as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was passed.
What is Compromise of 1850
400

What did the North do about slavery by the 1850's?

What is had made it illegal or outlawed it?

400
Name the woman who helped so many slaves reach their freedom.
What is Harriet Tubman.
400
John Brown's raid divided the North and South even farther. Where did the raid take place? Double bonus if you get both city and state.
What is Harper's Ferry, Virginia
400
What battle started the Civil War?
What is Battle at Fort Sumter?
500
Law allowing people in certain areas to determine whether or not their territory would allow slavery
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act
500
What did slavery do for the south?
What is It was profitable for the plantations?
500
What were free African Americans always worried about?
What is losing their freedom?
500
What was Abraham Lincoln's views on slavery? and Stephen Douglas's views on slavery? Double bonus for both.
What is Lincoln opposed it and Douglas thought it had its place?
500
What did the North hope to achieve with the Civil War?
What is End to slavery-Preserve the Union.