10 20 30 40 50 Causes of the Civil War Jeopardy Political Balance Tariffs Divide States Climographs Fight Over Slavery At the Edge of War 10 20 30 40 50

In the 1800’s the South’s economy depended on this

Depended on the labor of enslaved people

state under the Missouri Compromise Was admitted as a free state under the Missouri Compromise Category 1 - 10

Established a border that divided the nation into areas that allowed slavery and the others that did not Category 1 - 20

The reason land was important to the economies of the Southern states

A tax on goods coming into a country

Tariffs on imported goods led to conflict between

The jobs many men, women, and children in the North had

The reason Southerners worried about the tariffs

He sent troops to South Carolina to uphold the law

A climograph measures these two things

This part of a climograph shows the average monthly temperature

This part of a climograph shows the average monthly precipitation

The average temperature in Atlanta in June, July, and August

The three months that see the least rainfall in Atlanta

People who traveled on the Underground Railroad

A novel about a cruel slaveholder’s treatment of enslaved people

This party formed to oppose slavery

To betray one’s country (think John Brown’s raid on Harper’s Ferry)

This meant that if enslaved people were taken to free states, they were still enslaved

Fighting among people who live in the same country (the attack on Ft. Sumter was the beginning of ours)

Both Lincoln and Douglas wanted to be elected…

A public discussion, often on political issues

Lincoln’s statement that the U.S. could not “endure half slave and half free” meant

The way Southern lawmakers reacted to Lincoln’s election as President