The Peculiar Institution
The horrific journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Middle Passage
He assassinated President Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth
This series of debates focused on the expansion of slavery.
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
This city in Virginia served as the capital of the Confederacy.
What is Richmond?
A secret network of escape routes and safe houses for runaway slaves
What is the Underground Railroad?
This term refers to the scattering of African people that resulted from the slave trade.
African Diaspora
An escaped slave who became a famous abolitionist speaker and a leader in the antislavery movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This political party's main goal was to keep slavery where it existed but not let it spread
What is the Free-Soil Party?
The Union's plan to block Southern ports and split the Confederacy in two by controlling the Mississippi River
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The main reason it was illegal to teach slaves to read and write.
What is that it could encourage rebellion?
These songs and stories were used by slaves to preserve their culture.
spirituals and folk tales?
This conductor on the Underground Railroad helped about 300 slaves escape to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to this period of violence between pro- and anti-slavery groups.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This battle, the first major conflict of the war, showed both sides that the war would not be short.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
The 54th Massachusetts Infantry was a famous and brave regiment made up of these soldiers
Who were African American soldiers?
The typical work schedule for a field slave.
What is sun-up to sun-down?
He served as the one and only President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1852 novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe greatly influenced antislavery attitudes in the North.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1862 battle was the bloodiest single-day battle of the war
What is the Battle of Antietam?
The name for Midwesterners who sided with the South and opposed abolition.
Who were Copperheads?
The primary legal reason an owner was not punished for killing a slave.
What is that slaves were considered property?
An enslaved man whose Supreme Court case resulted in the ruling that African Americans were not citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
This event was the direct cause for the Southern states to secede from the Union.
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?
The strategy of destroying all civilian and military resources in a path of destruction.
What is total war?
This proclamation freed slaves only in the Confederate states as a military strategy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?