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Causes of the Civil
Question | Answer |
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Was the South rural or urban | rural |
Was the North rural or urban | urban |
what was the north's economy based on | Industrial |
What was the south's economy based on | Cotton |
The south proposed this so if the government banned slavery they could ignore it | Nullification |
what is Nullification | It is the Southern states could ignore laws made by the government |
Compromise of 1850 did what | Strengthened fugitive slave act, Gave popular sovereignty to Utah and New Mexico, Slave trade in D.C. is abolished, California enters Union as a free state |
Missouri Compromise did what | Missouri enters as a slave state, Maine enters as free state, creates 36,30 line where slaves above that line are free |
Kansas-Nebraska act did what | Gave popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska and nullified the Missouri act |
What are Abolionists | People that don't want slavery |
Who was dred scott, what did he do? | A slave who sued his master for his freedom and lost. |
What was uncle tom's cabin | Harriet beecher stowe wrote it and it was about life on the plantation. |
Lincoln and Douglas went around Illinois to do waht | they politition to the people |
who were the two democrats that ran against lincoln | Stephen Douglas, John C beckridge |
what did Lincolns campaign win meen for the south | that they had no political power |
Popular sovereignty | That states could choose if they were a free or slave state. |