Vocabulary
A slave who escaped from slavery and is hiding.
What is a fugitive?
A person who is employed to track down and return escaped slaves to their masters.
What are slave catchers?
The President during the Civil War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
The act that allowed the people of each territory to decide whether or not to allow slavery.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The movement to end slavery
What is abolitionism?
The right to vote
What is suffrage?
What the southern economy depended on
What is slavery?
A Union general
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
For every free state there is a slave state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The _____ states that attacked first.
What is the Confederate state/Confederate?
Also known as the North during the Civil War
what is The Union?
a route that helped slave escape slavery
What is the underground railroad?
The president of The Confederate Army
Who was Jefferson Davis?
A package of five separate bills passed by the United States Congress in September 1850 that defused a political confrontation between slave and free states on the status of territories acquired in the Mexican–American War.
what was the Compromise of 1850?
A powerful anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
What the southern states did to try to keep their slave based economy
what is secede?
A cause of the Civil war
Slavery
American Confederate general best known as a commander of the Confederate States army during the American Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Battle of Fort Sumter
What battle started the Civil war?
Sickness
What did most people die of?
to make void
What is Nullification?
Sojourner Truth, Fredrick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman.
Who are some Abolitionists?
An Union general, civil engineer, railroad executive, and politician who served as the 24th governor of New Jersey.
Who was George B. McClellan?
Slaves have no rights even in free states
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The women worked as nurses and helped the wounded.
What did the women do in the war?