In Dred Scott the Supreme Court ruled that slaves weren't citizens.
What is True
The time period BEFORE the Civil War
What is Antebellum Period
Many Antebellum reforms led to the Civil War however, many historians considered this reform to be the primary motive for the division between the North and South.
What is Slavery
Official border between the U.S. and Mexico that was established at the conclusion of the Mexican-American War.
What is the Rio Grande River
This man invented the cotton gin.
Who is Eli Whitney
In Dred Scott the Supreme Court ruled slaves were considered property.
What is True
To break away or withdraw from an organization, group, or union.
What is Succession
This is how the North and South's economies differed.
What is north based on factories and south based on farming.
This treaty that was signed by Mexican and American authorities officially ended the Mexican-American War and established the Rio Grande as the border between the two countries. The U.S. also gained land in what eventually became the states of New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
The Cotton Gin led to the expansion of this.
What is Slavery
This law required the return of runaway slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
The period (1865–77) that followed the American Civil War and during which attempts were made to redress the inequities of slavery and its political, social, and economic legacy and to solve the problems arising from the readmission to the Union of the 11 states that had seceded.
What is Reconstruction
The north had much more of this type of transportation compared to the south.
What is Railroad
The name of the "country" formed by the 11 gray slaveholding states pictured here. It lasted only four and a half years, from December 1860 to April 1865.
What is the Confederate States of America (CSA) or Confederacy.
This former slave lost a Supreme Court case regarding his rights.
Who is Dred Scott
This is the idea, formalized in the Kansas-Nebraska Act, that allowed for the people of the territory to decide if they wanted to be free or a slave state
What is Popular Sovereignty
What was the nickname of the Kansas and Nebraska territories
Bleeding Kansas
This is the question that came up each time a new state wanted to join the union.
What is if it will be a free state or slave state
A "little revolt" that was semi-successful for abolitionists and slaves and it gave them confidence and momentum to eliminate slavery.
What is John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry 1859
This region was rural with an agricultural economy and was very anti-tariff.
What is the South
Individual who believed that slaves should be freed immediately. In fact, who wrote about his feelings towards slavery in his newspaper, The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrsion
The Missouri Compromise stated that Missouri enter the Union as a slave state and what this state would enter as free.
What is Maine
This was declared unconstitutional as a result of the Dred Scott vs. Sanford Supreme Court case
What is the Missouri Compromise
The event illustrated here is best associated with this man, "The Great Compromiser."
Who is Henry Clay
An individual who opposed slavery and was a member of a movement that gained serious momentum through the Civil War
Who is an abolitionist or abolitionist movement