Slavery & Economy
Eli Whitney’s invention that increased cotton production and slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
The idea that people in a territory should vote on slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Lincoln’s document that freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The South’s economy depended mostly on this type of labor.
What is enslaved labor?
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The first major shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
The bloodiest single day battle of the war.
What is Antietam?
Agency that provided food, schools, and jobs to freedmen.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The "path" that led many enslaved people to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Anti-slavery novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The Union general who issued the “March to the Sea.”
Who is William T. Sherman?
Union control of this river cut off Confederate supply lines.
What is the Mississippi River?
Southern laws designed to limit rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
These laws restricted the movement, education, and rights of enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
The violent conflict in Kansas caused by pro- and anti-slavery settlers.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This battle in Pennsylvania was the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
This speech honored fallen soldiers and redefined the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The system where workers rented land and paid owners with part of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
This term describes the belief that states could choose to follow or ignore federal laws.
What is nullification (or states’ rights)?
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
The strategy that blocked Southern ports and split the Confederacy using the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This final battle event forced Lee to surrender.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The political agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops.
What is the Compromise of 1877?