North or South
Favored tariffs that protected factory workers
North
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who wants to end slavery
new bullet used during Civil War that led to an unprecedented amount of casualties
Minnie Ball
Who is President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
nickname that refers to the bloody fighting that took place in Kansas between freesoilers (people against slavery) and border ruffians (people in favor of slavery). A direct result of the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.
Bleeding Kansas
Which side favored a states rights over a strong central government?
South
This invention helped increase the demand for slavery.
Cotton Gin
What is the name of the North's plan to split the Confederacy in two?
Anaconda Plan
Who is President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What does secede mean?
To leave or break away
What was the biggest Southern advantage?
They know the land or they are defending their homeland
This former slave helped slaves runaway from the South and brought them up North through a network of underground hiding places.
Harriet Tubman
This amendment banned slavery.
13th Amendment
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Sectionalism is defined as loyalty to one's ______________ instead of the country
region/section
What was the Capital of the Confederacy
Richmond VA
What happened with the Dred Scot v. Stanford case?
Judges ruled that all slaves were not citizens (property) and could not sue in court
This amendment gave voting rights to African Americans
15th Amendment
Who was the main general of the Confederacy?
Robert E Lee
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
Ordered all citizens of the United States to assist in the return of enslaved people who had escaped from their owners
Name one major advantage the Union had over the Confederacy?
Factories/Manufacturing or Railroads or Population
What is the name of one of America's earliest civil rights activists. He is considered the "father of the abolitionist movement".
Frederick Douglass
This Amendment declared that all persons born or naturalized in the U.S. were citizens
14th Amendment
Who was the main general of the Union?
Ulysses S Grant
people vote to decide whether a state is a slave or free state.
popular sovereignty