Road to the Civil War

The secret way slaves escaped to the North:

• Missouri Road

• Underground Railroad

• Chattanooga Choo-Choo

• Kansas-Nebraska Trail

Why did Texas' population of African Americans grow before the Civil War?

• Many were looking for jobs in the cities of Texas.

• Freed slaves stayed in Texas to raise families.

• Southerners who moved to Texas brought slaves with them.

• Better nutrition due to a better economy.

Missouri Compromise:

• 1861

• 1857

• 1810

• 1820

The efforts of the writers, speakers, and editors who were against slavery resulted in what event in the 1830s?

• end of slavery in border states

• black people could vote

• establishment of fugitive slave laws

• the abolitionist movement

Stephen Douglas: Let the people in the territory vote on allowing slavery or not: this was called

• territorialism

• regional decision-making

• colonialism

• popular sovereignty

What is this concept?

• Manifest Destiny

• Survival of the Fittest

• Universal Expansion

• Divine Nature

Missouri Compromise

• Henry Clay

• Thomas Jefferson

• Sam Houston

• Marty Raney

Law with harsh punishments for people who helped escaped slaves?

• Fugitive Slave Act

• Judiciary Act

• Hawley-Smoot Act

• Kansas-Nebraska Act

A key reason Southern states seceded from the Union?

• The right of citizens in each state to be treated equally

• The right of citizens to travel freely

• The right of citizens to own property

• The right of citizens to own slaves

Tariffs divided the North and South.  Most southerners were-

• skilled military men and could fight.

• in favor of high tariffs because they would pay off debt in Texas.

• against high tariffs because they would benefit the North’s factories.

• against high tariffs because they would increase the price of goods