Civil War #1
Who wrote the Compromise of 1850?
Henry Clay
Who wrote the Gettysburg Address?
Abraham Lincoln
Who was Harriet Tubman and what did she do?
Conductor of the Underground Railroad who helped many slaves escape to freedom in the north.
What is the name of the group of southern states that seceded from the Union?
Confederacy
What the northern states were called?
Union
What happened to Abraham Lincoln at the end of the Civil War?
He was shot and killed by John Wilkes Booth
This compromise allowed states to decide for themselves if they were to be a free or slave state and repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What was known as the Bloodiest Battle in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What is the name of the large farms in the south where slaves worked?
Plantations
What is a person called who sought to abolish (end) slavery?
Abolitionist
What book did Harriet Beecher Stowe write that described how slaves were treated in the South?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was the problem when Missouri wanted to join the country?
Missouri did not know whether to be a free state or slave state as part of it was above the Ohio River
What is it called when a nation fights itself?
Civil War
Who was Jefferson Davis?
President of the Confederacy
What is a tax benefiting largely northern businesses and raising the costs to southern agricultural exporting industries?
Tariff
What color were the uniforms for the Union?
Navy/Blue
In the Dred Scott case why was he not given his freedom?
The court said slaves had no rights anywhere in the United States...they were property.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do for slaves?
Set all slaves (in the north and south) FREE
What marked the beginning of the Civil War?
The cannon's firing at Fort Sumter
What is the belief that states have the right to govern themselves outside the control of the federal government?
States' Rights
What was the north's economy based on?
factories and manufacturing
What major event caused the southern states to secede?
election of Lincoln
What does secede mean?
to leave
Who was President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
Slave states that did not secede from the Union are called?
Border States