| A | B |
| Southern economy | based on agriculture |
| Northern economy | based on manufacturing |
| South | disliked tariffs--imported goods cost more |
| North | liked tariffs so buy American |
| Abraham Lincoln | slavery was wrong but just no more spread |
| Missouri Compromise | Missouri/Maine enter slave/free |
| line dividing free/slave | part of Missouri Compromise |
| Compromise of 1850 | popular sovereignty in territories |
| Fugitive Slave Law | captured runaways must go back |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Kansas voted to be free |
| South Carolina | first to secede |
| Fort Sumter, SC | first shots of Civil War |
| Dred Scott decision | slaves are property-can go anywhere |
| Republican Party | formed to oppose slavery |
| cotton gin | caused slavery to increase |
| King of the southern economy | cotton |
| bleeding Kansas | fighting between pro & anti slavery |
| Abraham Lincoln | "A house divided against itself cannot stand." |
| April 12, 1861 | Civil War begins |
| 11 Southern States | Confederate States of America |