The North/The South
This region became industrialized in the first half of the 18th century
What was the North?
In 1820, an imaginary line was drawn across the US to separate these two kinds of states forming in the new territories
What were free states and slave states?
This Black American helped hundreds of enslaved people to freedom, but also led a successful military raid in the war, and founded a women's rights organization later on
Who was Harriet Tubman?
The number of years the Civil War lasted
What is 4?
Lincoln represented this brand new party
What were Republicans?
The word for the Southern lifestyle, centered around farming rather than factories
What is agrarian?
The state whose name was part of the 1820 agreement (The ____ Compromise) establishing the imaginary line dividing the new US states
What is Missouri?
Many people fleeing slavery hoped to get to this international destination
What was Canada? (Mexico/the Caribbean islands)
The first state to secede from the United States in late December of 1860
What is South Carolina?
The number of the amendment to the Constitution, that officially abolished slavery across the entire United States
What was the 13th?
These agricultural products made farmers a lot of money but weren't the most useful and were difficult to grow
What are cash crops?
The law passed as part of the Compromise of 1850 which significantly increased the penalties for helping people fleeing the southern states
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the title given to people whose houses were used as safe temporary stopping points along the routes of the Underground Railroad
What were Station Masters?
Total number of southern states that seceded (including the first one)
What is 11?
The name of the executive order that Lincoln issued in 1683, liberating enslaved folk in the territories fighting against the Union
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The modern kind of transport that prevailed in the North, which made it so easy to transport goods over long distances
What are railroads?
The man whose lawsuit about his legal status as a slave or a free man was decided by the Supreme Court in 1857
Who was Dred Scott?
The decade during which the Underground Railroad began to take shape as one of the main methods of resistance to slavery among Black Americans
What were the 1830s?
The official name for themselves chosen by the group of states that fought against the United States during the war
What was the Confederate States of America?
In 1863, Lincoln allowed Black men to do this, to participate in the Civil War directly
What was join the Army or Navy?
This invention (made to separate seeds from plant fibers) made a huge difference in the South, and caused a steep rise in the use of enslaved laborers
What was the cotton gin?
Roger Taney of the Supreme Court found that Black Americans, whether enslaved or free, were not in this legal category, which meant they could not use the courts on their own behalf
What was citizenship?
This man, who operated a safe house in Pennsylvania, wrote down the life stories of hundreds of escaped people which were published in 1872
Who was William Still?
The election in 1860 of this president was a major factor in the war finally breaking out
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln needed to get the votes of these members of Congress, who were not in his party, in order to pass the amendment he wanted
What were southern Democrats?
or, What were "lame duck" congressmen?