Lead-up to the Civil War

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  1. 2. The Northern people lived in ________ areas since the Northern cities are more developed and more densely populated.
  2. 4. The ________ Slave Act permitted the capture of ex-slaves in the North and caused abolitionists to be angry.
  3. 6. Most of the South decided to do this after the election of Abraham Lincoln.
  4. 8. This term “________ sovereignty” describes the government policy to let the territories decide whether or not they would be slave states or free states.
  5. 12. This group went to Kanas to fight to make slavery there legal.
  6. 13. The S________ outh rebelled against the North because they wanted to keep slavery.
  7. 14. This term is used to describe growing differences between separate areas of the US into different groups,(Territory, Confederate, Union etc.)
  8. 17. In the ________ compromise the North and South agreed to count 3/5 of slaves as population
  9. 19. Many more ________ came to the North than to the South and were a large part of the labor force there.
  10. 20. Cotton made up most of the Southern and Northern trade during the Civil War time.
  11. 21. The Civil War crushed the South’s ________ economy and plunged many farmers into debt and poverty.
  12. 23. Part of the ________ of 1850, the Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished.
  13. 25. The North has a larger ________ economy and many people worked in factories.
  14. 26. Southern farms were located in ________ parts of the region.
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  1. 1. The ________ -Nebraska Act, passed in 1854, allowed the people in the territories to decide whether they wanted to allow slavery or not.
  2. 3. ________ Kansas is a period of repeated outbreaks of violence between pro slavery and ant-slavery following the new territory of Kansas.
  3. 5. A group of mostly Northern states that DID NOT separate themselves from the U.S during the American Civil War
  4. 7. A group of Southern states that separated themselves from the U.S during the American Civil War.
  5. 9. The label for a person who wanted to end slavery.
  6. 10. This group went to Kanas to fight to end slavery there.
  7. 11. The ________ had an industrial economy.
  8. 15. In the ________ Compromise, passed in 1820, it was agreed that territories north of the Missouri border would be free, and those south of the border would allow slavery.
  9. 16. Northern ________ were a main reason why the Northern economy was much larger than the South's.
  10. 18. In 1619, ________ started. It became a huge topic in this era and caused arguments between the North and the South which caused the Civil War.
  11. 22. "King ________ " was a term indicating the economic and political importance of cotton production.
  12. 24. These massive farms were used to grow crops and mostly slaves worked on them.