Causes of the Civil War

This event categorized slaves as property.

This describes the secret routes that slaves used to escape from the South to the North and onward to Canada.

The spark of the Civil War took place at

A person who wants the immediate and complete end of slavery is called a(n)

This region was concerned with states' rights being violated with high tariffs and attempts to limit slavery.

This person wrote a book called Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which inspired many northerners to join the abolitionist movement.

This region wanted tariffs to help convince Americans to buy American made goods.

This law was based on the idea of popular sovereignty.

Loyalty to your region of the country instead of the country as a whole is called

This person was a former slave that started the abolitionist newspaper “The North Star.”

John Brown used violence to try and end slavery in the US. Which group saw him as a hero?

This term means when people would vote on whether or not to allow slavery in their territory or region.

The Fugitive Slave Law was created to

This person was elected President of the Confederate States of America.

The Liberator was a newspaper that focused on the issue of:

Emancipation means

This region had an agricultural economy that relied on plantation slavery.

The southern states wanted to keep slavery because

What was the decision of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott trial?

This region of the country had an industrial economy with factories and businesses.

The Compromise of 1850 said