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Another name for the Union?
The North or the United States
This general became the overall commander of the Union Army
Grant Ulysses S. Grant
This famous abolitionist was born into slavery but escaped and became a leader in the fight against slavery.
Frederick Douglas
This 1850 law required escaped enslaved people to be returned to their enslavers.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act
This Confederate general was accidentally killed by his own troops.
General Stonewall Jackson
Another name for the Confederacy
The South
Who was the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davies
A house divided against itself referred to the issue of ____________
What is slavery?
This Supreme Court case said that African Americans could not be citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott
This word means to officially leave a country or union.
What is secede
Which region had the smaller population (North or South)?
The South
In Abraham Lincoln's "House Divided", Lincoln argued that the country could not remain permanently “half slave and half _____.”
Free
This Confederate general was known by the nickname “Stonewall” because of his defense at the First Battle of Bull Run.
General Stonewall Jackson
What issue caused the Civil War
What is slavery?
This idea said that people living in a territory should vote on whether slavery would be allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
Which Confederate Vice President wrote the "Cornerstone Speech"?
Who is Alexander Stevens
This abolitionist author wrote the book, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This word describes strong loyalty to one region of the country instead of the entire nation.
Sectionalism
This 1820 agreement admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
Missouri Compromise
This was the name for people who wanted to end slavery.
What is Abolitionists
The _____________ had more advantages in the Civil War because they had more resources.
What is the North?
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and was the overall commander of of the Confederate Army.
General Robert E. Lee
There were more railroad miles in the _________ giving them transportation advantages at the start of the Civil War.
What is the North?
This 1854 law reopened the question of whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas and Nebraska.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act
This document issued by Abraham Lincoln declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation