Vocabulary
Sectionalism is:
Being more concerned with your own region than the country as a whole.
What region had warm, fertile geography, slave owners, and a plantation-based economy?
The South.
What invention increased cotton production and the desire for slaves?
The cotton gin.
What 1820 compromise allowed Missouri to enter as a slave state and Maine as a free state?
The Missouri Compromise.
Who won the 1860 presidential election, triggering Southern secession?
Abraham Lincoln
Choosing to leave the union/country.
What region had cold, rocky geography, abolitionists, and factories?
What nickname did people give cotton because of its power in the Southern economy?
"King Cotton"
What 1850 law required citizens to help capture runaway enslaved people?
The Fugitive Slave Act.
What concept is represented in that painting of the floating lady bringing "progress" to the West and Native Americans?
Manifest Destiny
When a state ignores federal laws they don't think should apply to them, it's called:
Which region was stereotyped as stupid and either rich and cruel or poor and oppressed?
The South.
What is the name of the free Black carpenter in Charleston allegedly planned a large slave revolt in 1822?
Denmark Vesey
What set of laws admitted California as a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Compromise of 1850.
Which two women were key organizers of the Seneca Falls Convention and the main authors of the Declaration of Sentiments?
I'll take last names only, if needed.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
A big piece of land owned by the U.S. but not a state, is called:
A territory.
Which region was stereotyped as heartless, nosey, non-traditional, and all about money?
The North.
What is the name for people who wanted to get rid of slavery immediately and free all enslaved people?
Abolitionists.
What act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty, undoing the Missouri Compromise?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is the name of the tragic journey caused by the forced removal of Native Americans from the East in the 1830s?
What policy allowed people living in territories to decide if their state would be slave or free?
Popular sovereignty.
Why was the South so obsessed with slavery?
Their economy depended on it.
What Supreme Court case ruled that people of African descent, whether free or enslaved, were not U.S. citizens and could not sue in federal court?
The Dred Scott Decision.
What is the name of the act that gave the president power to "negotiate" removal treaties with Native tribes, leading to the Trail of Tears?
The Indian Removal Act.
Give a reason why the South (starting with South Carolina) decided to secede from the United States.
States' rights, government interference, tariffs, slavery, etc.