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During the 1840’s this group opposed annexation because they feared the admission of new slave states
Who were the abolitionists?
Between 1820 and 1865 debates over the spread of slavery into new territories centered around this constitutional issue.
What is states rights vs rights of the federal government?
As the United States acquired more land between 1803 and 1850 controversy over these territories focused on this
What is the expansion of slavery?
The Missouri Compromise of 1820 and the Compromise of 1850 settled conflicts between the North and South over this
What is the admission of new states into the Union?
Before the Civil War this principle was proposed as a means of deciding the legalization of slavery in a new state.
What is popular sovereignty?
During the first half of the 19 th century the construction of these led to the expansion of trade between the midwest and east.
What are roads and canals?
The completion of this canal in the early 19 th century aided the economic development of the United States by lowering the cost of shipping goods from the Midwest to the Atlantic Coast.
What is the Erie Canal?
The cotton gin was invented by this man.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This invention increased the speed of transportation along rivers.
What is the steamboat?
This invention helped the North win the Civil War by allowing troops to be transported faster.
What is the railroad?
This man said “A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure half slave, half free.”
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This woman wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in 1852.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
In 1859 this man along with 21 others attempted to take over an armory at Harper’s Ferry, Virginia. He was eventually hung for treason.
Who was John Brown?
This slave sued his master for his freedom after being taken North of the Missouri Compromise Line.
Who was Dred Scott?
A northern abolitionist her name is always associated with the “Underground Railroad”.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Taxes paid on things brought into this country.
What are Tariffs?
Loyalty to your section of the country instead of the country itself.
What is sectionalism?
Those against slavery.
Who were the abolitionists?
Right of the people living in a territory to choose whether they wanted to allow slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Freed the slaves in the Confederacy, gave the moral purpose for fighting the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This argument was used by Abraham Lincoln as justification for entering the Civil War.
What is preserving and defending the Union?
Lincoln opposed this but said he would not challenge it where it already existed
What is slavery?
Abraham Lincoln was a senator from this state before he was elected president in 1860.
What is Illinois?
After the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man at Ford Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
In this year the Civil War Started
What is 1861
The withdrawal of a state from the Union.
What is secession?
Before the Civil War fighting between anti-slavery and slavery forces took place in this state.
What is Kansas?
The southern economy relied heavily on this crop.
What is cotton?
This decision by the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that slaves were property and that Congress could not pass a law depriving residents of their property.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This state was the first to secede from Union on December 20 th 1860.
What is South Carolina?
This State became the financial center of the United States during and after the Civil War?
What is New York?