Slavery
Causes of the Civil War Pt. 1
Causes of the Civil War Pt. 2
Civil War Pt. 1
Civil War Pt. 2
100
These laws shaped the day to day life of slaves in the United States.
What are slave codes?
100
This is grown for sale rather than for personal use.
What is a cash crop?
100
This is a war between people in the same country.
What is a civil war?
100
He was president of the Confederacy. Many people thought he was not a very good leader.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
He became General of the Confederate Army and surrendered to Grant in 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
This is a system of escape routes used to lead runaway slaves to freedom in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Law that states that if a slave is caught running away he or she must be returned to his or her owner. If a person helps a slave escape, he or she would be fined or sent to jail.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
200
This was Lincoln's view of slavery.
What is that Lincoln was against the spread of slavery but didn't think the government had the right to completely end slavery in the country.
200
This is the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
200
The Emancipation Proclamation freed slaves here.
What is the Confederate states?
300
This abolitionist was born a slave and ran away to the North later in life. He wrote a book that made many people aware of the dehumanizing experience of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
300
This stated that Missouri would be allowed to join the Union as a slave state, Maine would enter as a free state, and an imaginary line would be drawn through the rest of the Louisiana Purchase where land north would be free land and the land south would allow slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
These states are located in between the North and the South. Many wanted to keep slavery but did not want to secede from the Union.
What are the border states?
300
This is how the Union strategy of winning control of the Mississippi River and blockading Southern ports would help the Union win the war.
What is stop the South from shipping crops, the South would have no money to buy war supplies, and the South couldn't receive any weapons and supplies from other countries?
300
This is where General Lee met with General Grant to surrender on April 9, 1986.
Where is Appomattox Court House?
400
This made it difficult for slaves to run away on the Underground Railroad.
What is getting away from his or her owner, moving only at night, and lack of money to travel?
400
This is the decision made in the Dred Scott decision.
What is that Dred Scott was still a slave and did not have the right to sue for freedom (slaves were nothing more than property and Congress did not have the right to make slavery illegal)?
400
This event led to 11 states seceding from the United States and forming the Confederate States of America.
What is Lincoln elected as the 16th president?
400
These were challenges that soldiers of the Union and Confederacy had to face.
What is hunger, disease, bad weather, lack of supplies, boredom, and the possibility of death?
400
Lincoln shared the Emancipation Proclamation after this important Union victory.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
These are ways in which slaves resisted their life under slavery.
What is breaking tools on purpose, leaving gates open to let farm animals run away, boats drift away, hiding household items, leading rebellions against owners, and running away to the North?
500
This is the relationship between the northern and southern economies.
What is the South grows cash crops to send to the North, the North produces goods using cash crops, and then the North sends products back to the South to use?
500
This event is when more than 200 people were killed when many people rushed to Kansas to be a part of the vote for slavery and soon began to fight.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500
These were the additional difficulties faced by African American soldiers created by racial prejudice.
What is performing non-combat or support duties, higher mortality rate due to disease and unsanitary conditions, paid less than white soldiers, and greater threat if captured by the Confederacy?
500
The reasons that the Confederacy lost the Civil War.
What is the South was less industrialized, had a smaller population, a weakened economy, did not receive foreign aid, and had a weak central government?
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