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Americans who wanted to abolish, or end, slavery altogether.
Who are abolitionists?
The number of states that seceded the union.
What is 11?
He issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This political party formed primarily to prevent the spreading of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
The battle where people packed picnic lunches and watched.
What is the battle of Bull Run?
Those who wanted to break away from the United States and form a separate country in which the right to slave property could be guaranteed.
General Thomas Jackson's nickname.
Who is Stonewall Jackson?
He led the attack known as Bleeding Kansas.
Who is John Brown?
This conflict was between abolitionists and pro-slavery groups to win the slavery vote in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
South Carolina passed a law claiming to nullify the tariff and prohibiting its enforcement.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Lee surrendered in this year.
What is 1865?
He was inaugurated as the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
This slave decided to sue for his freedom. However, the courts decided that slaves were not citizens, but property and he lost his case.
Who is Dred Scott?
At the conclusion of this battle, Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam
In 1836, the House voted to adopt a rule, which automatically tabled any legislation dealing with the slavery issue.
What is the gag rule?
This group's strategy in the war was known as the Anaconda Plan.
Who is the North or Union?
He ran against Abraham Lincoln and represented the Democrats' popular sovereignty.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The crisis over whether to admit Maine to the United states led to this agreement, which left the number of slave states vs. free states equal.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was a 2 day bloody battle in Tennessee. The Confederates 'won' the first day, but in the end the Union held.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This law said that any person who knew of an escaped enslaved person and did not assist or help in their capture could be sent to prison.
The Fugitive Slave Act
The idea that each state should decide the issue for itself, was made unconstitutional.
What is popular sovereignty?
He came up with the Missouri Compromise.
Who is Henry Clay?
This group of people wanted the federal government to outlaw slavery in the territories, while supporters of popular sovereignty wanted the residents of new states to decide the issue for themselves.
Who are the Free Soilers?
Instead of pursuing the Southern Army in the Battle of Antietam, this general chose to let them go infuriating President Lincoln.
Who is General George McClellan