Vocabulary
Those who argued against slavery
Abolitionist
William Still
Most enslaved people traveled ________.
North
Abraham Lincoln was killed by ____________.
John Wilkes Booth
14th Amendment
Plantation
The Pennsylvania Society for Abolition of Slavery was the country's first...
anti-slavery group
What country offered freedom, since slavery was illegal?
Canada
The conflict between North and South was based on
slavery and economy
How many African Americans were elected to Congress?
16
"Break away" from
secede
The South's economy was based on
Farming
The name of the route that means "Polaris"
The North Star
The South secedes because they believed
that their economy would fail without slavery
Admittance back into the Union was based on three things. What were they?
Abolish slavery, destroy confederate currency, and rewrite their constitutions
An official public announcement
proclamation
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 stated that slave owners could __________.
Recapture escaped slaves
The most famous code song
"Following the Drinking Gourd"
The first battle of the Civil War, the Confederacy won
Fort Sumter
Commanded the army and protected the capital, Governor of New Jersey
George McClellan
Farmer who gives part of his or her crop to a landlord as payment for using the land
sharecropper
Sarah and Angelina Grimke were the country's most important ______________.
speakers and writers about abolition
What do safe houses provide?
Shelter, clothing, food, water and supplies
Helped African Americans find jobs
Freedman's Bureau
The two woman who helped in the war effort
Clara Barton and Cornelia Hancock