Causes
A person who is against slavery is called this
What is an abolitionist
A cash crop that contributed to slavery
What is cotton
the President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The winner of the Civil War
What is the Union (North)
A former slave who learned to read and write and spoke out against slavery and for women's rights
Who is Fredrick Douglass
A compromise that made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
An escaped slave that created the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
The first battle that began the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
An amendment that made slavery illegal
What is the 13th Amendment
A court case that decided that slaves can be taken anywhere in the US and still be a slave. It also decided slaves are property and not people.
What is the Dread Scott Decision
The North relied on this for their economy
What are factories
A major Union General who would become the 18th President.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
The bloodiest battle and the “turning point” of the civil war.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg
The southern States used these to limit the rights of newly freed African Americans
What are Jim Crow laws
Loyalty to the part of the country you live in rather than the whole country.
What is Sectionalism
The South relied on this for their economy
What is agriculture and slavery
A major Confederate General
Who is Robert E. Lee
The south surrendered at this courthouse.
What is Appomattox Courthouse
The amendment that overturned the Dred Scott Decision and gave citizenship to former slaves
What is the 14th Amendment
The three S's of the Civil War
What is Slavery, Sectionalism, State's Rights
An invention that sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves
What is the Cotton Gin
The title of the speech Lincoln gave to freed slaves
What is The Emancipation Proclamation
The first state to succeed or leave the Union
South Carolina
A system of farming in the South where smaller farmers would give a large share of their crops to landowners in exchange for land, housing, tools, and seeds.
What is sharecropping