Law & Disorder
This court case decided that Congress could not ban slavery in territories and that enslaved people were not considered citizens.
Who is Dred Scott?
This battle represented a major turning point for the Union troops, who greatly weakened Confederate forces.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
Another word for taxes on imported goods - these were supported the industrial, factory-based North and opposed by the import-dependent South.
This is the period of time after the Civil War when Confederate states rejoined the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
This is the name of someone who wants to end slavery.
What is an Abolitionist?
A part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required that runaway slaves be returned to their owners, making Northerners living in free states feel like they had to participate in slavery against their will.
What is the Fugitive Slaw Law?
The Union victory at this battle gained them control of the Mississippi River, creating an advantage for transportation and cutting the Confederacy in half.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This was the act of Southern states leaving the Union.
What is Secession?
The Union North had many more miles of ______, allowing them to transport troops and supplies quicker than the South.
What are Railroads?
This is the word for loyalty to one region instead of the nation, a force which helped to drive the North and South apart.
What is Sectionalism?
This law allowed settlers in new territories to decide whether to allow slavery through voting. It was intended to be a peaceful solution, but ended up causing conflict and violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A Confederate attack on this military installation in South Carolina sparked the beginning of the Civil War.
This was a secret passage and system of safehouses used by abolitionists to help slaves escape to the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Confederate South had a home-field advantage during the war, meaning that they had a better knowledge of the _____: land features such as rivers, mountains, and forests.
What is Terrain?
The power of the Supreme Court to interpret laws.
What is Judicial Review?
This is the idea that a state can ignore a federal law if it believes that law is unconstitutional.
What is nullification?
This document declared that slaves in Confederate states were free, changing the purpose of the war and leading to many African-Americans to join the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This book shed light on the harsh conditions of slaves on Southern plantations and created sympathy for the abolitionist cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This is the cash crop that the Southern economy was based on.
What is Cotton?
People voting to decide an issue.
This interpretation of the Constitution clearly defined who should be in control of decisions made about slavery.
What is States' Rights?
This was the location where General Robert E. Lee surrendered Confederate forces to the Union General Ulysses S. Grant.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
This is the name for the result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, a series of violent conflicts that revealed how divided the nation was becoming on the issue of slavery.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This is the name for an official count of population and economic data. Data like this revealed the Lower South had the highest number of plantations and enslaved people.
What is a Census?
Period of time in the South in which slavery was practiced and normalized, latin for "before the war"
What is Antebellum?