Vocabulary
Someone who is against slavery.
What is an Abolitionist?
A person who was a part of the Underground Railroad and was an important Abolitionist.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
When you have no right to freedom.
What is Slavery?
Proposal to make slavery illegal in the territory
ceded from Mexico.
What was the Wilmont Proviso?
A bread like substance that was made out of flour and water.
What is Hard Tack?
A plantation worker in the south who has no rights.
Whats a slave?
An important commander that led the Confederate Army.
Who was Stone Wall Jackson?
Was the reason the main states split and the civil war started.
What is slavery?
when escaped slaves were caught, they were to be returned to their plantations in the South. Anyone aiding runaway slaves, even northern whites, were breaking the law.
What was the fugitive slave act?
A young boy who enlisted in the war then became one of the most famous Sargent.
Who was John Clem?
A decision that was made because a slave went to court because his owner took him to a free state and he wanted to know if he had the right to be free.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
President during the civil war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
When William Wilberforce ended slave trade to england.
What is the abolition movement?
When the states started to divided in order to keep them togethore the union decided to keep an equal amount of free states in line with the same amount of slave states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
These states were slave states that did not leave the Union, but largely supported the cause of the Confederates.
What was a Border state?
A Slave that has run away from his Master and is trying to make it to freedom.
What is a fugitive?
Fought for the North and to end Slavery.
What is the Union Army?
Wrote a book about Slavery and became one of the best-known abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Stowe Beecher?
Was a plan to divide the territory of Louisiana. This way they could let the citizens vote on wether or not it would be a slave state.
What was the Kansas Newbraska Act?
An executive order from President Abraham Lincoln stating that slaves in the Confederate states were to be set free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
A compromise that stated when a new state comes about and decides to join the union then another state is submitted to become a slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Fought for the South and to keep Slavery
What is the Confederate Army
A book about slavery which was written by Harriet Stowe Beecher.
What was Uncle Toms Cabin?
The first event that started the civil war where bombs were fired at a Union Base in South Carolina.
What was the Attack On Fort Sumter?
A soldier thats wounded or killed during battle.
Whats a Casualty?