Sectionalism
This region of the United States became the manufacturing and production hub of the country.
What is the North?
This religious movement which began in the early nineteenth century inspired the reform movements of temperance, abolition, and women's suffrage.
The Missouri Compromise sought to keep a balance of power between the Free states and Slave states. This state was admitted to the Union as a free state as part of this compromise.
What is Maine?
This political party came to be in order to limit the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
What is the Republican party?
The Civil War official began when South Carolinians fired upon this Union Base off the coast of Charleston.
What is Fort Sumpter?
The Southern economy, built on the backs of slave labor, heavily produced this crop.
What is cotton?
The Liberator, an anti-slavery newspaper first produced in Boston, was published by this man.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This term is used to describe the process in which settlers of a U.S. territory elect for themselves whether to allow slavery or not.
What is popular sovereignty?
This event directly led to the secession of 7 Southern states to leave the Union in 1860.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This declaration by President Lincoln "freed" the slaves within the Rebelling South and established abolition as a main goal of the Union war effort.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Western territories attracted settlers for these two reasons.
What are gold and farmland? (economic opportunity)
Perhaps the most famous of the Underground Railroad's "conductors," this woman led thousands of enslaved African Americans to the free North.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Compromise of 1850 had many component parts put together. Name three of them.
What are 1. California entered as a free state, 2. The slave trade was banned in D.C., 3. creation of New Mexico and Utah territories, and 4. stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
This motto could be used to describe the actions Northerners were to take due to the passing of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850.
What is "See something, say something?"
What is the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
The arguments over this economic practice, in which a country places a protective tax on imported goods, increasing led to sectional differences in the 1800s.
What are tariffs?
Harriet Beecher Stowe, a wife to a clergyman in Massachusetts, wrote this famous book which drew attention to the abolitionist movement in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Who was Henry Clay?
This Supreme Court case argued that enslaved African Americans were property and would never achieve political equality.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
General William T. Sherman led this Union War Effort through Georgia, practicing "scorched earth" war tactics.
What is Sherman's "March to the Sea?"
The arguments over the rights of states under a federalist system came to head when this state threatened to nullify Congressional laws during the Nullification Crisis.
This speech, given by Sojourner Truth, called for equal rights for women and Black Americans.
What is "Ain't I a Woman?"
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
When Abraham Lincoln ment this author, he is quoted with saying, "Oh, you're the little lady who started this great war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Union victory at this three-day battle fought in 1863 marked the turning point in the war, in which Union victory appeared inevitable.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?