Abolitionists
This famous abolitionist helped freed slaves by helping them escape via the Underground Railroad
Who is Hariet Tubman
This is a military strategy used to prevent the entry or exit of goods to an enemy port.
What is a Blockade
This state became a slave state in 1820 as a result of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Missouri
What is Atlanta
Lincoln was a senator in this state
What is Illinois
These two quaker sisters, became famous abolitionists and would become active speakers and writers for the Anti-Slavery movement
Who are the Grimke Sisters
This word means to formally leave or withdraw
What is to secede.
The United States got the land that became California after which war?
What is the Mexican American War.
Who is Jefferson Davis
This was Lincoln's top priority at the start of the war
What is to Preserve the Union
This abolitionist/Pastor led a 3-day slave revolt in Virginia
Who is Nat Turner
This is when 2 make an agreement by giving up something that they want in order to achieve something
What is a compromise
In a controversial 1857 Supreme Court case, the court ruled that slaves are property and cannot sue in court. This case also said that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional. What is the name of this court case?
What is the Dred Scott case
These were slave states that never seceded from the Union.
What are Border States.
In 1863, President Lincoln issued this doctrine, that called for the emancipation of all slaves living in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This famous abolitionist fought in the bleeding Kansas conflict and also tried to raid the U.S. armory in Harper's Ferry, VA.
Who is John Brown
This word means to set someone or something free.
What is to Emancipate.
This law gave the people of Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
This was the only key advantage that the Confederacy had during the war.
What is Homefield Advantage
This law officially abolished slavery in the United States of America.
What is the 13th Amendment.
These two famous abolitionists owned newspapers.
Who are Frederick Douglass and William Lloyd Garrison.
What is Popular Sovereignty
This controversial law that was a part of the Compromise of 1850 made abolitionists across the north upset.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law
This was the name of the Union's plan to "choke" the life out of the Confederacy
What is the Anaconda Plan
This Democrat senator from Illinois ran against Lincoln in the 1960 presidential elections.
Who is Stephen Douglass