States
The eleven states grouped together as the what?
What is The Confederate States of America?
She was an escaped slave that helped slaves escape the South using the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
First battle of the American Civil War and signaled the start of the war.
What is Fort Sumter?
Someone who wishes to abolish or get rid of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine was admitted as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
First state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
Former slave that bought his freedom, wrote an autobiography, and was an outspoken leader for the Abolitionist movement?
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
This battle changed the future of naval warfare. It took place on March 8, 1862 and March 9, 1862.
What is The Battle of Ironclads?
When states break away to form their own nation.
What is secession?
This compromise admitted California as a free state, the Fugitive Slave Law was passed and slavery was banned in Washington, D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The North depended more on this.
What is manufacturing?
He was the president of the Union during this time.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first major battle to take place in the western theater of war.
What is The Battle of Shiloh?
Document freeing slaves in Union-controlled Confederate states, signed by president Lincoln.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
This was a case that ruled blacks as property and they weren't considered citizens under the constitution so therefore they couldn't sue.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
The South depended more on this.
What is agriculture?
Kansas preacher that led an attack on the Federal Arsenal at Harper’s Ferry,VA?
Who is John Brown?
This battle was one of the most important battles of the Civil War for the North. Robert E. Lee had invaded the North and was trying to defeat the Union Army once and for all.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
A way that the Union stopped supplies from going to the south where they needed them.
What is a blockade?
The government passed an act allowing the residents of this place to vote on whether they would be a slave state or a free state. The region was flooded with supporters from both sides, several people were killed in small fights giving the confrontation its name.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Last state to secede from the Union.
What is North Carolina?
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beacher Stowe?
The South defeated the North despite having a much smaller army due to the superior tactics of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
What is The Battle of Chancellorsville?
Large farms in the south where cotton or tobacco was grown.
What is a plantation?
This forced Northerners to return runaway slaves to their owners.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law?