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Road to Civil War
Question | Answer |
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Characteristics of the Northern Economy | Manufacturing, Factories, Industry, Urbanization (Cities) |
Characteristics of the Southern Economy | Agriculture (Cotton & other Cash Crops), Plantations |
Issue that divided the North and South: States' Rights | The belief that important decisions should left uo to State Governments. Southerners believed that each state should decide the future of slavery in their own state. |
Sectionalism | Loyalty to a region or state rather than to the nation as a whole |
Missouri Compromise (1820) | Designed to keep the number of free and slave states equal (Maine admitted as free state/Missouri admitted as slave state) |
3 compromises that addressed the conflicts over the extension of slavery into western territories and states | Missouri Compromise (1820); Compromise of 1850; Kansas Nebraska Act (1854) |
This decision by the Supreme Court stated that slaves are property and therefore not citizens. | Dred Scott Decision |
Fugitive Slave Law | US Marshalls are required to identify and arrest escaped slaves and return them to the South. |
City where riots broke out as citizens attempted to interfere with the arrest and African Americans by US Marshals | Boston |
The idea that the people should vote on the future of slavery within their state/territory reflects the concept of | Popular Sovereignty |
Radical Reformer who lead violent attacks against pro-slaver settlers Kansas ("Bleeding Kansas") and raided a federal arsenal to steal guns to give to slaves | John Brown |
When two or more parties reach an agreement by giving up some of their demands (All sides get some, but not everything, of what they want). | Compromise |
Election of 1860 Winner | Abraham Lincoln |
Election of 1860 directly causes South Carolina to | Secede |
The results of the Election of 1860 reflect | Division over Slavery |