Abolition &
Underground Railroad
Underground Railroad
This famous conductor helped many escape slavery.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The election of this man in 1860 led Southern states to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This state was the first to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This battle started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
Union soldiers were often called this.
What are Yankees?
He escaped slavery and became a powerful speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This means that decisions are made by the people, and it allowed territories to vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
This new nation was formed by seceding states.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This first major battle showed the war would be long.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Confederate soldiers were called this.
What are Rebels?
He published The Liberator newspaper.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This allowed California to enter the union as a free state, other new territories to decide on slavery for themselves, and called for stricter fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He became president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A famous naval battle featured these two ironclad ships.
What are the Monitor and Virginia (Merrimack)?
This freed enslaved people in rebel states and shifted the purpose of the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe showed the cruelty of slavery and became very popular.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This violent raid by John Brown tried to start a slave uprising.
What is the raid on Harpers Ferry?
This argument said states could leave the Union.
What are states’ rights?
This battle was the bloodiest single day of the war.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This legal right was suspended by Lincoln during the war, allowing him to jail his enemies.
What is habeas corpus?
This religious movement helped spread anti-slavery ideas.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
This Supreme Court case denied citizenship to African Americans.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
These slave states stayed in the Union.
What are border states?
This plan aimed to blockade the South and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This (prior to ending slavery) was the North’s main goal in the war.
What is to preserve the Union?