Lead Up to the US Civil War

This region of the United States had more people, more cities, more railroads, and more factories

This region of the United States had a better climate for farming and agriculture, and it allowed slavery

What is the term for a person who wanted to end slavery?

• Reformer

• Abolitionist

• Utopian

• Suffragette

Which Free State joined the United States with Missouri as part of the Missouri Compromise of 1820?

• Massachusetts

• Mississippi

• Minnesota

• Maine

According to the Missouri Compromise of 1820, slavery was prohibited north of this line in the Louisiana Territory.

• 36-30 Line

• 49th Parallel

• North-South Line

• Mason-Dixon Line

A large farm where cash crops were grown and many slaves generally worked in the fields

• Bonanza Farm

• Cash Crop

• Plantation

• Barn

The secret network of people that helped slaves escape to the North was known as the ___

A proposal that would have banned slavery in the Western Territories - it never became a law

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Missouri Compromise

• Wilmot Proviso

• Slave Code

This state was admitted to the Union as a Free State as part of the Compromise of 1850

• California

• Texas

• Minnesota

• Maine

This law was part of the Compromise of 1850 and it legally required Northerners to return escaped slaves to the South

• Slave Code

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Wilmot Proviso

• Fugitive Slave Act