Causes
Helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The "final straw" that began the secession of states.
What is election of Abraham Lincoln as president?
The leader of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What is to secede?
The name given to those people who moved slaves from slave states in the south to free states in the north.
What is a conductor?
In the south the region would mainly be considered ________. (rural/urban)
What is rural?
The Democratic candidate in the election of 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
The concept of letting people decide on the rules of government.
What is popular sovereignty?
The name given to the south, meaning before a war.
What is antebellum?
Led a raid on Harper's Ferry to help abolish slavery?
Who is John Brown?
The controversial Supreme Court decision against this place that caused greater sectionalism.
Who is Dred Scott?
To declare invalid or no longer legal and binding.
What is to nullify?
What is social status?
The compromise that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe based on the stories that the fugitive slaves told her.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The first battle in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This abolitionist was born a slave in New York and eventually spoke out for women's rights and equality.
What is Sojourner truth?
Define industrialized
What is having factories and other manufacturing businesses?
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 required that escaped slaves be ___________________.
What is captured and returned to their owners?