Events before the Civil War
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin about?
Evils of slavery
What was the cause of the Civil War?
The extension (spread) of slavery
Who was the enslaved African American who escaped and founded an abolitionist newspaper, The North Star?
Frederick Douglass
What was Lincoln’s first goal in The Civil War?
Preserve the Union
What was John Brown’s plan @Harpers Ferry?
Take guns from arsenal, give guns to slaves, kill slave owners, (create slave army)
In Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, where did Lincoln free the slaves and where did he maintain slavery?
Freed slaves in Confederate States
Maintained slavery in border states
Who was the American slave and Christian preacher who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831?
Nat Turner
What group of people were killed during the Draft Riots?
Free African Americans
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act allow people to do in Kansas?
Use popular sovereignty to decide free or slave status in territories
What was the name of the military strategy when the Union seized control of the Mississippi River and blocked the Confederates from using the ocean to transport troops and supplies?
Anaconda Plan
Who was the African-American woman who gave speeches arguing that blacks and women deserved the same rights as white men? (Ain’t I a Woman?)
Sojourner Truth
What was the most famous group of black soldiers during the Civil War led by Robert Gould Shaw (white)?
Massachusetts 54th Regiment
What part of the Compromise of 1850 did the southerners strongly support?
Fugitive Slave Act
Which Civil War battle was a turning point in the war because the Confederates failed to invade the North?
Battle of Gettysburg
Who was the free African American who advised slaves to fight for their freedom rather than to wait for slave owners to abolish slavery?
David Walker
What was the name of the new country created by southerners who seceded?
Confederate States of America
Why did most Western Farmers & Northern factory workers vote for Lincoln?
If slavery spread it would threaten their jobs
Lincoln opposed spread of slavery
Why did Lincoln use martial law and deny prisoners the writ of habeas corpus in the border states?
To prevent border states from joining the Confederates
Who was the white northerner who started an abolitionist newspaper The Liberator which demanded an immediate end to slavery in America?
William Lloyd Garrison
What were border states?
Slave states that remained in the Union
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware