| A | B |
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| state's rights - southern states view | each state has right to secede if fed. gov't not representing them well |
| state's rights - northern view | believe fed. gov't. created by people, policies for all |
| southern culture | aristocracy of plantation owners/rural |
| northern culture | working class/urban - many cities |
| sectional differences - south | commercialized agriculture based on slavery |
| sectional differences - north | industrial economy |
| slavery - north | believed fed. gov't had power to decide issue of slavery |
| slavery - northern abolitionists | believed slavery was immoral & intolerable |
| slavery - southern view | depended on slavery for farm economy |
| slavery - southern view | believed slavery less abusive than factory work |
| Dred Scott v. Sanford | court case said slaves were property, feds couldn't legislate against slavery in territories |
| north reaction to Dred Scott v. Sanford | feared ruling would increase power of south, >slavery in west |
| Kansas-Nebraska Act | Gave residents of these states the right to vote for or against allowing slavery |
| Republican Party | party advocated laws to make slavery illegal in western territories |
| Who won the election of 1860? | Abraham Lincoln, Republican, caused S. Carolina to seceed |
| What states were part of the Confederate States? | S. Carolina 1st, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Miss., Texas |
| Who was President of the Confederate States? | Jefferson Davis made President /Feb. 1861 |
| Where were the 1st shots fired of the Civil War? | Fort Sumter, South Carolina - Union ships fired on |
| What was Pres. Lincoln's response to the south's firing on Fort Sumter? | called for 75,000 volunteers to fight |
| what other states joined the Confederate States? | Virginia, Ark., N. Carolina, Tenn. |
| Party that opposed extension of slavery into the territories | Free-Soil Party, which became the Republican party |
| Party that were opposed to the # of immigrants entering the USA | The Know-Nothing Party |
| idea that people in a state can vote for or against slavery | Popular sovereignty" |
| Author of the Compromise of 1850 | Henry Clay (also known as "the Great Compromiser" |
| A famous woman "conductor" of the Underground Railroad | Harriet Tubman |
| Leader of the slave rebellion at Harper's Ferry | John Brown |
| What was "Bleeding Kansas?" | violence resulting from dispute over whether the state should be pro or antislavery |
