Cause 1
This term describes loyalty to a specific region rather than to the whole country, and it grew stronger in the U.S. before the Civil War.
What is Sectionalism
This group of people,used speeches, writings, and activism to fight for the end of slavery in the United States.
Who are the Abolitionists?
This 1820 agreement tried to maintain the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
Known as "King BLANK", growing this cash crop was a large motivator for expanding slavery in the south.
What is cotton?
This famous escaped slave became a leading voice for abolition and published the newspaper "The North Star."
Who is Frederick Douglass
This 1850 compromise included admitting California as a free state and passing a stricter Fugitive Slave Law. (if you know the year your nearly there...)
What is the Compromise of 1850?
These types of factories, common in the Northern states, helped drive industrial growth and increased the demand for cotton from the South.
What are textile factories?
This woman helped hundreds of enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This 1854 act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether to allow slavery, a concept known as Popular Sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
The debate over this institution’s expansion into new territories deepened the divide between Northern and Southern states.
What is slavery?
These abolitionist writers known by their first and middle names were both white northerners, one published the influential anti-slavery newspaper "The Liberator and the other wrote the best selling novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who are William Lloyd Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe
As part of the Missouri Compromise, this state was admitted to the Union as a free state to balance the admission of Missouri as a slave state, or maybe they were just craving Lobster...
What is Maine?
These two major economic systems in the North and South led to increased tensions between the regions.
What are industry and agriculture?
This abolitionist and women’s rights activist, born as Isabella Baumfree, became famous for her powerful speeches, including "Ain’t I a Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This line, established by the Missouri Compromise, marked the boundary above which slavery was prohibited in the Louisiana Territory (except for Missouri).
What is 36°30′ line?