Category 1: The North
What type of economy was in the North, based on work and jobs?
Industrial Economy
What was the main cash crop in the South?
Cotton
What was the policy of the Fugitive Slave Act?
Required escaped enslaved individuals to be returned to their owners
What was the political party alignment of the Northern and Southern states?
North=Republican
South=Democrat
What is they type of protest that Trade Union workers sometimes did by not going to work until fair and better changes were made
Going on Strike
What groups of people typically demanded better pay and working conditions in the North? They typically worked in factories, industries, or construction.
Trade Unions
What was the name of the laws that controlled enslaved people’s rights and movements, and actually stated the rights they do not have?
Slave Codes
What compromise allowed California to enter the U.S. as a free state but included the Fugitive Slave Act?
Compromise of 1850
What were the 2 major political party's stances on slavery?
Republican=Against Slavery
Democrat=For Slavery
What is it called if someone gets fired from their job or is not allowed to buy property from a seller strictly because of their race, gender, religion, or country of origin?
Discrimination
What major transportation method helped the North transport goods and people more efficiently?
Railroads
What did the southern states call themselves when they seceded to form their own nation and government?
The Confederate States of America - The Confederacy
What law allowed territories to vote on whether to allow slavery, leading to violence?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What was the new political party that gained popularity over the Republican party during westward expansion, but lost it's credibility for not ever clearly developing a stance towards slavery?
The Whig Party
What was it called if a co-worker developed unfair judgment/opinions towards someone they worked with and thought less of them strictly based on their race, gender, religion, or country of origin?
Prejudice
What is it called when regions like the North experience growth and development into big industrial cities?
Urbanization
What was the main difference between Yeoman Farmers and Plantation Owners?
Yeoman Farmers worked small farms with little to no enslaved labor, while Plantation Owners had large farms and many enslaved workers.
What was the goal of the Missouri Compromise?
To maintain a balance between free and slave states.
What was the final event that caused Southern states to start seceding from the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860
What was the name of the anti-slavery newspaper that influenced many Americans?
The Liberator
Which two immigrant groups made up a large part of the Northern factory jobs, and describe the types of wages and treatment/judgement they received?
Irish and German Immigrants earned low wages and faced discrimination and prejudice
What popular phrase described the importance of cotton to the Southern economy?
"Cotton is King"
What was the ruling of the Dred Scott v. Sanford Supreme court case?
Enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights.
What is the name that was given to several states that were in between the North and South after southern states seceded and formed the Confederacy?
Border States
What group(s) faced the most prejudice and discrimination in factory jobs up North?
What groups(s) faced the most prejudice and discrimination in the South?
North=Immigrants
South=African Americans