Leading Up to the Civil War

What was the nickname given to cotton during the 1800's?

• Money Plant

• White Stuff

• King Cotton

Was slavery declining by the 1790's?

• No

• Yes

_______ is the civil right to vote, or the exercise of that right. 

• Polling

• Suffrage

________ was born a slave in Talbot County, Maryland.

• Frederick Douglass

• John Brown

• Abraham Lincoln

Political loyalty to one section of the country rather than to the whole country is called ___________.

• Suffrage

• Voting

• Sectionalism

Missouri became a slave state and Maine became a free state according to _________.

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Compromise of 1850

• Compromise of 1820

President Abraham Lincoln issued the ________ on January 1, 1863

• Emancipation Proclamation

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

• Big Speech

"Riders" of the Underground Railroad escaped in this direction.

• East

• West

• North

These individuals chased runaway slaves.

• Station Masters

• Riders

• Slave Hunters

Who was credited with the creation of the cotton gin?

• John Lowe

• Eli Whitney

• Ellis Jones