People of the Civil War
Before the War
Daily Life
Key Terms
War Begins
100
Perhaps the most famous conductor of the underground railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman.
100
Illegal voting and violence breaks out in Kansas
What is Bleeding Kansas
100
What was the major economic system in the south
plantations
100
This compromise undid the Missouri Compromise
Kansas-nebraska act
100
What were two advantages that the north had.
factories, more people, banks
200
Was the first Republican President after the civil war
Abraham Lincoln
200
When people vote whether a state would be slave or free.
popular sovereignty
200
Where did most northerners work?
factories
200
Government formed by the seceding states
confederacy
200
What were two advantages of the south
cotton, rivers, their territory
300
Became the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
300
Supreme Court decided that this slave had no rights
What was the result of the Dred Scott Case?
300
the major cash crop in the south
cotton
300
What word means to break away from?
secede
300
This battle was the turning point of the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
400
Led an anti-slave rebellion killing plantation owners
John Brown
400
This machine made it faster and cheaper to clean cotton
cotton gin
400
Feared losing their freedom
african americans
400
Laws that required slaves to be returned to owners
fugitive slave law
400
What state was admitted as part of the Compromise of 1850?
California
500
This person assassinated Abe Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
500
This person wrote the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin about life as a slave.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
500
People who opposed slavery.
abolitionists
500
Laws to restrict the rights of African Americans
black codes
500
This speech by Lincoln officially made the war about slavery.
emancipation proclamation
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