VUS.8 Review

1. this popular novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the emotional and physical harms of slavery.
5. He wrote an autobiography describing the horrors of slavery and believed education was key to ending slavery.
6. This was one of the major social causes of the Civil War.
7. When this president was elected to office in 1860, Southern states began seceding from the union.
10. William Lloyd Garrison, who believed slavery was a sin, published an abolitionist newspaper called the ______.
11. This abolitionist challenged ideas about race and gender.
12. In the Compromise of 1850 this state was added to the union as a free state.

2. In this compromise, Henry Clay proposed drawing a line across the Louisiana Purchase at the 36° 30’ latitude allowing states below the line to be slave states and states above the line would be free.
3. This group of people fought to end slavery.
4. After the signing of the Kansas-Nebraska Act there was an outbreak of violence between anti-slavery and pro-slavery activists in this state.
8. _______________ Sovereignty means states should have the right to make their own choices about laws including whether to allow slavery.
9. The economy of the South was dependent on __________ while the North was more industrialized.