North vs. South
Abolition & Resistance
Compromises & Laws
Leaders & Famous People
EVENTS
100

The South’s economy depended mostly on this.

What is agriculture / farming (cash crops)?

100

This person wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a book that turned many Northerners against slavery.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

100

This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state and drew a line at 36°30′.

Missouri Compromise

100

He gave the “House Divided” speech in 1858.

Abraham Lincoln

100

This 1860 event led Southern states to begin seceding.

election of lincoln
200

By 1850, this was the fastest and most efficient way to transport goods in the North.

the railroad

200

This famous conductor on the Underground Railroad escaped slavery herself and guided many others to freedom.

Harriet Tubman

200

This 1850 agreement admitted California as a free state, allowed popular sovereignty in two new territories, ended the slave trade in D.C., and passed a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.

Compromise of 1850

200

This former enslaved man became a powerful abolitionist speaker and writer.

frederick douglass

200

This state was the first to secede from the Union.

south carolina

300

This invention greatly increased the demand for enslaved labor in the South.

cotton gin

300

This 1831 event in Virginia frightened Southerners and led to stricter slave codes.

Nat Turner’s Rebellion

300

This law forced Northerners to help capture runaways or face punishment.

Fugitive Slave Act

300

This man tried to start a violent slave revolt by raiding the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry in 1859.

john brown

300

This violent period in the Kansas Territory showed how divided the country had become.

“Bleeding Kansas”

400

Most goods in the South were moved by this type of transportation.

river / waterways

400

This term described secret routes and helpers who assisted enslaved people escaping to the North.

Underground Railroad

400

This 1854 law let settlers in Kansas and Nebraska vote on slavery, canceling the Missouri Compromise line

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

This Supreme Court case said African Americans were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in territories.

Dred Scott v. Sandford

400

This event in 1861 turned the secession crisis into an actual Civil War.

attack on ft. sumter

500

The geography of the South helped it grow crops because of fertile soil, long growing seasons, and plentiful rainfall, but it lacked this natural feature that powered Northern factories.

fast-moving rivers for water-powered mills

500

The MOST common way enslaved people resisted slavery was not uprisings or escapes but this:

quiet, everyday resistance (like slowing work or secretly disobeying)

500

In 1846 this failed proposal would have banned slavery in any land gained from Mexico during the war.

Wilmot Proviso

500

In 1856 this anti-slavery senator from Massachusetts was attacked in Congress by Preston Brooks for his speech against slavery in Kansas.

Charles Sumner

500

In the Lincoln-Douglas debates, Lincoln argued that slavery was not just a political issue but this kind of issue.

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