Agriculture
The leading cash crop in the south.
What is cotton?
African Americans forced to work in the Americas doing jobs mostly on plantations.
Who were slaves?
The compromise that created the 36* 30* line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
An effect of the Denmark Vessey Plot.
What are the Slave Codes being tightened?
A free-soiler, elected to president in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The nickname cotton received in southern states.
What is "King Cotton"?
Bad homes, little to no food, and bad clothing.
What were slave living conditions?
The compromise that allowed California to join the United States.
What is the compromise of 1850?
An effect of the disagreeing of slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A man who sued for his freedom, caused the Fugitive Slave Act.
Who was Dred Scott?
The Cotton Gin does this to make cotton easy to sell.
What is the removal of seeds?
Slaves were used to pick these plants.
What is cotton?
The act that repealed the 36* 30* line.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
An effect of the Dred Scott court case.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
People that wanted to succeed from the Union, didn't think it was up for debate.
Who are the Fire-Eaters?
The creator of the Cotton Gin.
Who is Eli Whitney?
Laws that kept slaves in line and stopped them from revolting.
What were Slave Codes and the Fugitive Slave Acts?
The states affected by the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
South Carolina did this because of the election of 1860.
What is succeeding from the Union?
People that wanted to stay with the Union but didn't agree with the federal government.
Who were Unionists?
Big farms run by slave owners that made lots of money.
What is a plantation?
People who wanted to "abolish" slavery.
Who were Abolishinists?
The nickname that was given to Kansas after the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
Smallpox rumors in the south caused this.
What is the secession meeting being held in Charleston?
The person to write "Uncle Tom's Cabin."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?