1North
This region had diversified industries
2South
This regoin relied on slavery as its main source of labor
3Compromise of 1850
Allowed California to be admitted as a free state in return for a more effective fugitive slave law
4Popular Soverignty
The right of the people in a territory to vote on the status of slavery in their new state.
5Harriet Tubman
Famous conductor of the underground railroad
6John Brown
Person responsible for planning the raid on Harper's Ferry in which a group of men planned to attack the federal arsenal in order to start a slave uprising. Once captured and executed he quickly became a martyr for abolition.
7Black Codes
Laws passed after the Civil War by southern governments.
8Emancipation Proclamation
Freed slaves ONLY in the Confederate States.
9Election of 1860
Southern states began to secede from the Union following this event.