SS Ch4 L2 Word Scramble
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In 1850, lawmakers in the South wanted to pass laws that would... | punish people who helped slaves escape |
The Fugitive Slave Act made it... | illegal to help slaves runaway |
In 1852, Harriet Beacher Stowe wrote a fast selling book called... | "Uncle Tom's Cabin" |
"Uncle Tom's Cabin" described ... | slave conditions and how they were treated in the South |
In 1858, dozens of Ohio citizens were arrested for . | rescuing John Price, a fugitive slave, and helping him flee to Canada |
In 1854, Congress passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act that let new territories decide whether to | allow slavery or not. This went against the Missouri Compromise of 1820. |
In 1860, Abraham Lincoln and the Republican Party were against | the spread of slavery but did not think government should end it in the South. |
In 1861, the Confederate States of America, also called the Confederacy, was formed in the city of Montgomery, Alabama and guaranteed | the right to own enslaved people. |
Confederate leaders set up their capital in | Richmond, Virginia, only about 100 miles from Washington D.C. |
On April 12, 1861, Confederate forces fired cannons on | Fort Sumter, a Union fort on an island in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina. |
After Union troops surrendered at Fort Sumter, a total of | eleven states made up the Confederacy. |
The North's factories were a strength in the war because | it had more resources such as weapons. |
armory | building where weapons are kept |
border state | slave states between the free and slave states but did not secede |
secede | leave or break away from something |
The South's strengths were | they were fighting for their homeland and their way of life. |
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