Tuesday 4/5

Supreme Court case which ruled that slaves are not citizens but are property, affirmed that property cannot be interfered with by Congress, slaves do not become free if they travel to free territories or states, fueled abolitionist movement, hailed as victory for the south.

• Brown vs Board of Education
• Dred Scott Decision
• John Brown Court Case
• Confederate Convict Clause

Notion that the people of a territory should determine if they want to be a slave state or a free state by voting.

• Secession
• Popular Sovereignty
• Nullification
• Abolition

A state's refusal to recognize an act of Congress that it considers unconstitutional

• submission
• secession
• nullification
• partition

Primarily focused on industrial enterprise. Business and industry played major roles. Life was faster and commerce important.

• The North
• The South
• The West

Primarily agricultural. The economy was primarily based upon the existence of large family farms known as plantations. The plantation economy relied on cheap labor in the form of slaves to produce tobacco & cotton. Farmers did not want to do the work themselves.

• The North
• The South
• The West

What state was the first to secede from the Union?

• Texas

• North Carolina

• South Carolina

• Virginia

What event occurred right before the southern states started to secede?

• Lincoln elected president

• Slavery was outlawed in the North

• Missouri Compromise

• Compromise of 1850

What was the name of the new country formed from the states that seceded?

• Fredonia

• Confederate States of America

• Southern States of America

• Articles of Secession

Who was the Republican candidate for president in 1860?

• John Bell

• Stephen Douglass

• Henry Clay

• Abraham Lincoln

What issued bitterly divided the north and south?

• Should slavery be allowed in new states formed from western territories.

• The War of 1812

• The Declaration of Independence

• Republicanism