Causes of the Civil War
A philosophical movement that led to the foundation of social reform movements
2nd Great Awakening
South Carolina's resistance to a federal tariff
Nullification Crisis
The North's economy which accelerated during the Civil War.
Industrial/Manufacturing
Many cite the expansion of slavery as the major motivator of obtaining which new territory?
Texas
The justification for Westward expansion that the US had the god-given right to expand.
Manifest Destiny
An agreement that drew a line across the country separating North and South; free and slave.
Missouri Compromise
A federal law that required the return of escaped enslaved people.
Fugitive Slave Law/Act
This Congressman was nearly killed in 1856 for speaking out against slavery.
Charles Sumner
This document, written by Lincoln, freed slaves in rebelling states.
Emancipation Proclamation
Land gained following the end of the Mexican-American War.
Mexican Cession
This new law effectively nullified the Missouri Compromise by allowing popular sovereignty.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
A human trafficking practice that occurred due to the outlaw of the international slave trade.
Domestic Slave Trade
The following people belong to what social reform movement?
William Lloyd Garrison, John Brown, Harriet Tubman
Abolition
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Proposed law to ban slavery in territory acquired from Mexico to preserve it for poor whites.
Wilmot Proviso
This compromise has multiple parts, including the slave status of a new state.
Compromise of 1850
The staple of the South's economy.
Cotton
This novel was widely distributed in the North and changed people's views on slavery and slave owners.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
A rebellion of enslaved Virginians that took place in Southampton County, Virginia, in August 1831
Nat Turner's Rebellion
This state sat on both sides of the Missouri Compromise line but ultimately became a free state.
California
This election was a direct cause for the secession of South Carolina.
Election of 1860 - Election of Lincoln
The justification the South gave for secceeding.
Protecting state's rights
This new development in infrastructure linked the Northeast, Midwest, and West.
Pacific Railway / Transcontinental Railway
Which amendment formally ended slavery?
13th Amendment
A display of violence that broke out in 1855 showing American's willingness to fight for their side of the slavery debate.
Bleeding Kansas