Influential Figures
This was the United States President at the time of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This compromise created a border that said anything north would be a free state and anything south would be a slave state... with the state it is named after being the exception.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This crop was the #1 source of income for slave owners in the South
What is cotton?
This reform movement fought for the end of slavery
What is the abolitionist movement?
This state was the first to leave the Union, encouraging others to follow in their footsteps.
What is South Carolina?
The Civil War broke out shortly after this man raided a federal armory in Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
This state was added as a free state as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What is Maine?
This man escaped slavery by pretending to be a sailor to board a train in Baltimore, then went on to become a national leader of the abolitionist movement.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The women's rights movement focused mainly on gaining this right
What is women's suffrage?
Created by Stephen Douglas, this act allowed territories to vote on whether or not slavery was allowed.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
From slave to preacher, this man led an armed rebellion that killed many slave-owning families.
Who is Nat Turner?
This man, who was involved in rigging the 1824 Election, was the creator of the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
This was a network of people, both whites and African Americans, who worked together to help runaways from slaveholding states travel to the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
This reform movement fought against the sale and consumption of alcohol.
What is the temperance movement?
Abraham Lincoln was a part of this political party
What is Republican?
This woman was a strong advocate for women's rights and the banning of alcohol. She was arrested numerous times for dressing like a man so she could vote.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
This Compromise added California and Texas to the US, making California a free state and Texas a slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This person led over 300 people to freedom on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman? or Who is John Brown?
Dorothea Dix was a leader in this reform movement
What is prison reform?
This decision ruled that the Constitution did not protect the rights of African Americans because of their lack of citizenship.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
The president before Abraham Lincoln, this pro-slavery leader is responsible for doing nothing to fix the relationship between the North and South.
Who is James Buchannan?
This mini civil war that occurred as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This book tells the story of an enslaved person who saves a young girls life and is said to have helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This person argued for the creation of free common schools in the education reform movement
Who is Horace Mann?
This state was the last state to leave the Union, creating the Confederate States of America.
What is Tennessee?