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What is the immediate result of Lincoln being elected in 1860?
South Carolina Secedes
How did the harsh treatment of slaves affect Northerners?
It made them join the abolitionist movement.
What part of the Compromise of 1850 would the South favor?
Fugitive Slave Act
What shocking event took place soon after the Civil War ends?
Lincoln is assassinated
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
What is primary economic activity in North?
Factories, Manufacturing, Industry
What is primary economic activity in South?
Agricultural, plantations, cash crops, slavery
What was the primary economic activity in the West?
Mining
What happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed?
Bleeding Kansas (people fought over issue of slavery)
What is Lincoln's view on secession?
States cannot leave the Union
What is the main cause of the Civil War?
Slavery
What battle initiates the Civil War?
Ft. Sumter
What did John Brown hope to accomplish?
A slave revolt (rebellion)
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed slaves in Confederacy only
Why was the Republican party founded?
To stop the spread of slavery
What was a result of the Dred Scott decision?
Slavery could spread to all U.S. territories
