Compromises
This state, populated by prospectors looking for gold, was admitted to the Union as a result of the Compromise of 1850
California
Lincoln's political party. Did not want to see slavery expand Westward.
Republican.
Large commercial farms, often growing only one crop.
Plantations
The side that had an industrial-based economy
The Union
The name of the law that forced Northerners to return runaway slaves
Fugitive Slave Act
The Missouri Compromise (1820) established a line, above which, slavery could not spread. It also allowed this northeastern state into the Union as a free state to balance Missouri's entry as a slave state
Maine
Lincoln won the election without winning a single state from which region?
South
To formally leave a political union.
Secede
The side fighting that had an agricultural-based economy
The Confederacy
Keeping the balance of "Free" and "Slave" states even was very important for this part of Congress.
The Senate
Named for two states that were created from it, this act made the Missouri Compromise line obsolete by allowing for Popular Sovereignty in the states (right to vote on legality of slavery)
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This state seceded first, and sparked the Civil War by attacking a federal fort located within it
South Carolina
To eliminate slavery.
Abolish
This side used most of their farm land to grow cotton.
The South
True or False: Every "slave" state seceded from the United States.
False.
The Compromise that the Fugitive Slave Act came from
The Compromise of 1850
The attack on this fort by Confederate forces led to the beginning of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
The name of the country that broke off from the United States in 1860-1861
The Confederate States of America (Confederacy)
The side that had a larger population
North
The name of the part of the Triangle Trade that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas
The Middle Passage
The effect that the Compromise of 1850 had on Washington DC's slave trade
It banned it
How many candidates were running for president in 1860?
4
The idea that people can vote on important issues to decide in their own states.
Popular Sovereignty
The side that had more railroads
North
The term for the secret network of anti-slavery activists, who aided escaped Enslaved Peoples to reach freedom
The Underground Railroad