Pre-Civil War

2. a law that let people in new territories vote on slavery which led to fighting
4. things like roads railroads and canals that help transportation the North had more of these
10. a machine that made cleaning cotton faster which increased the need for enslaved workers
11. caring more about your region than the whole country
12. a Supreme Court ruling that said enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights
14. a person who wanted to end slavery
15. the growth of factories and businesses mostly in the North
16. a law that forced people to return escaped enslaved people to their enslavers even in free states
17. making goods in factories instead of by hand
19. a large farm in the South that grew crops to sell and used enslaved labor
20. a tax on goods brought into the country the North liked tariffs but the South did not

1. the belief that states should make their own decisions including about slavery
3. people forced to work without pay or freedom mostly in the South
5. a law that kept the number of free and slave states equal by letting Missouri be a slave state and Maine a free state
6. me know if this works for your class
7. a group of laws to try to keep peace including making California a free state and creating a stricter Fugitive Slave Act
8. a secret system that helped enslaved people escape to free states
9. crops like cotton and tobacco that were grown to be sold for money
13. a way of life based on farming common in the South
18. sovereignty the idea that people should vote on whether their state allows slavery