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These people worked to end slavery in the years before the Civil War
Abolitionists
The slogan “no taxation without representation” was first used by Americans to protest Britain’s
attempts to raise money through the Stamp Act
This controversial 1850 law allowed slave catchers to go into northern states and recapture escaped slaves:
The Fugitive Slave Act
Women played a role in the Civil War by
Dressing as a man and fighting for the Union
Spying for the Union
Nursing and helping wounded soldiers
Before the Civil War, slavery expanded in the South rather than in the North because
geographic conditions in the South encouraged the development of large plantations
In the 1840s, westward expansion was justified by a belief in
Manifest Destiny
Released in 1852 and written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, this book would become a best selling novel about slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The group of states that seceded and broke away from the Union to form a new country
The Confederate States of America
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free" - Abraham Lincoln, 1858. According to this quotation, Lincoln believed that
sectional differences threatened to destroy the Union
This system provided a network of homes and other safe locations for escaped slaves in the years before the Civil War:
The Underground Railroad
Widespread violence erupted in Kansas over slavery in the mid 1850s mainly due to
The practice of popular sovereignty
Base your answer to the question on the following passage and your knowledge of Social Studies. "...On the first day of January, 1863, I order and declare that all persons held as slaves...in rebellion against the United States, shall then, theneceforth [from then on], and forever free..." - President Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation, 1863. Based on the passage above, what was the EFFECT of Lincoln's message?
It gave freedom to all slaves everywhere and completely ended slavery
The Compromise of 1850 was an attempt to resolve issues related to
the protection and spread of slavery
Probably the most well known of the abolitionists, he was a former slave who spoke out against slavery and whose autobiography became a best seller before the Civil War:
Frederick Douglass
Which of the following was a consequence of the 1857 Supreme Court "Dred Scott" decision?
African Americans cannot be citizens
Slave owners have rights to take their slaves even to free states and territories
The abolitionist movement was devastated by the decision of the court
This battle was the largest and was considered "the turning point" in the Civil War with the defeat of General Lee's army
Gettysburg
Which statement describes an effect of the Louisiana Purchase (1803)?
The size of the United States was doubled.
His slave rebellion in 1831 caused many Southern states to pass much stricter and tougher "slave codes" to prevent further violence by slaves against their owners:
Nat Turner
The Civil War was fought mainly because
Because the South seceded and the North wanted to preserve the Union
The Civil War ENDED with this event
General Lee's surrender to the Union at Appomattox Court House