The North The South Reform Slavery/ Secession Civil War 1pt 1 pt 1 pt 1pt 1 pt 2 pt 2 pt 2pt 2pt 2 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 3 pt 4 pt 4 pt 4pt 4 pt 4pt 5pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt 5 pt
The north was industrial or agricultural?
What is industrial?
Elias Howe’s invention
What is the sewing machine?
An apparatus that used electric signals to transmit messages.
What is the telegraph?
People opposed to immigration.
Who are nativists?
Refusing to work in order to put pressure on employers.
What are strikes?
The South was mostly agricultural or industrial?
What is agricultural?
The South’s economy was completely dependant on what crop?
What is cotton?
The invention that revolutionized cotton production.
What is the cotton gin?
The largest group of whites in the South that did not own slaves.
Who are yeomen?
A plantation manager
Who is an overseer?
Community based on a vision of a perfect society.
What is utopia?
A movement to ban the manufacture and sale of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote this popular novel which explored the injustice of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Reformers wanting to end slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
The most widely known African American abolitionist who published his own newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A conflict between citizens of the same country.
What is a Civil War?
Withdrawal from the Union
What is secession?
This law required all citizens to help catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Henry Clay’s compromise to keep the balance between the free and slave states.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This means allowing people to decide.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The Confederate states chose this city as their capital.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
To free from slavery.
What is emancipate?
The Confederate states attacked this federal fort marking the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment freed the slaves
What is the 13th amendment?
Lincoln’s famous two-minute speech… Lincoln’s famous two-minute speech…. “government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.”
What is the Gettysburg Address?