The Civil WarChapter 10

Lessons 1 and 2

Regional loyalty.

•sectionalism

An economy that is based on many industries.

•diverse economy

Did not allow slavery.

•free states

Allowed slavery.

•slave states

Tax on imports.

•tariff

Invention that led to an increase in slavery because it made growing cotton more profitable.

•cotton gin

Idea that the states have the final say on laws.

•states’ rights

Part of the country that adopted the philosophy of states’ rights.

•South

Someone who escapes from the law.

•fugitive

Senator from Kentucky who introduced the Missouri Compromise.

•Henry Clay

7th President of the US who argued for a strong federal government.

•Andrew Jackson

Jackson’s Vice-President who argued states’ rights and was the voice of the South.

•John C. Calhoun

Joined the Union as a slave state in 1820 under the Missouri Compromise.

•Missouri

Joined the Union as a free state in 1820 under the Missouri Compromise.

•Maine

Joined the Union as a free state under the Compromise of 1850.

•California

Reason Kansas was “bleeding”.

• pro-slavery and anti-

slavery forces were fighting

Side that had more industry and factories prior to the outbreak of the Civil War.

•North

Caused conflicts between the Northern states and the Southern states.

• slavery

• tariffs

• states’ rights

Enslaved man who went to court and tried to win his freedom after his owner died.

•Dred Scott

What the Supreme court declared about enslaved people in the Dred Scott case.

• They were property and did not

have rights as American citizens

Enslaved man who led an attack that killed many planters.

•Nat Turner

Two African Americans who started the first African American newspaper called “Freedom’s Journal” in 1827.

•Samuel Cornish

•John Russwurm

White Northerner who founded the American Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.

•William Lloyd Garrison

Escaped lave who became famous for his writings and speeches against slavery.

•Frederick Douglas

A freed slave who traveled the country speaking against slavery whose real name was Isabella Van Wagener.

•Sojourner Truth

Organized a women’s rights convention in 1848 and wrote a document that called for equality for all Americans.

•Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which told of how enslaved workers were mistreated.

•Harriet Beecher Stowe

A system of secret escape routes that led enslaved people to free lands.

•Underground Railroad

An escaped slave, known as the “Black Moses”, who helped others escape slavery through the Underground Railroad.

•Harriet Tubman

Place where the women’s rights convention was held in 1848.

•Seneca Falls, NY