Road To Civil War

Debate arises over whether Missouri should be a slave state or a free state

Compromise is reached: Missouri enters as a slave state and Maine enters as a free state [keeping the balance between slave states and free states]

ALSO, line is drawn and no slave states can enter above the line AND no free states can enter below the line –The Line was designed to prevent future debates over the same issue

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Missouri Compromise  of 1820

• Compromise of California 

California tried to become a state, a debate arose over whether it should be free of slavery, or allow slavery.
What was the name of the Compromise that occurred in order for California to be entered as a free state?

• Missouri Compromise of 1820

• Compromise of 1850

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Civil War Compromise

What law required people in the free states to help capture and return escaped/run away slaves?

• Underground Railroad Law

• Slave Capture law

• Fugitive Slave Law

The book showed the horrible conditions of slavery and increased northern protest against the Fugitive Slave Act. 

• Uncle Tom's Cabin

• Harriet Tubman's Road

• Slavery is horrible

What part of the United States is this?
 We used Plantations.
 We lived in Rural areas.
 We did not want higher tariffs.
 We believed in State rights.
 Wanted to preserve their way of life. 

• North of the U.S. 

• South of the U.S .

What part of the U.S. are we?
 We had more factories and supplies.
We had telegraphs to use for immediate communication. 
We had more railroads. 

• North of the U.S

• South of the U.S

What am I?
 
Because of me the need for slaves increased. Cotton production increased. Cotton came to be known as “King Cotton”.

• Mechanical Reaper

• The Cotton Gin

• Erie Canal 

Who is the person who thought themselves as a thief because he is a runaway slave? 

• Abraham Lincoln 

• Fred Scott

• Fredrick Douglass

Abolitionist thinks ….

• Slavery should be in every state. 

• Slavery should end and never return. 

• Slavery should be up to each State. 

To show more loyalty to one section of the country than to the whole country as a whole is called what?

• Country love

• Abolitionist 

• Sectionalism