Slavery and Civil War

...the north favored high ________, or fees, on goods from other countries and saw the federal government as the preeminent authority.

Sotherners most often worked the land and considered __________states as having their own authority.

...slave importation had become illegal as early as 1808, ___________ thrived amid lax enforcement along the unprotected eastern coastline.

______________ argued that slave owners treated their "valuable property" well, but the reality was unquestionably brutal.

Slaves were ____________to learn to read and write, sold away from their families, and often whipped.

Abolitionists organized the Underground Railroad, a ______ of safe houses and guides for slaves escaping to free states in the north.

The cost of the Civil War was around 2 billion dollars

• True

• False

_____ Fugitive slaves led to freedom in the North by Harriet Tubman.

A concession to the South was an exchange for its agreement to allow the _________ war territories to enter the Union as nonslave states.

The Fugitive Slave act infuriated prominent _________ who were active in the Underground Railroad.