What is the definition of a "Civil War"?
What is a conflict between two groups within one country?
Ninety percent of the nation's manufacturing was located here.
What is the North?
The newly elected president of the Union in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Eli Witney invented what?
the secret operation that was used to try to free slaves from southern states.
What is the Underground Railroad?
Six of the seven states that seceded from the Union joined to form this.
What is the Confederate States of America or Confederacy?
For the first time in war, railroad became important for providing transportation, which was a disadvantage for this side.
What is the South?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
A white abolitionist who created the newspaper "The Liberator".
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
This is a term used to describe breaking away from something.
What is secede?
This is the side that Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri joined in the Civil War.
What is the Union?
Jefferson Davis attended this military academy.
What is West Point?
Born in Kentucky and holding little formal education.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
An abolitionists who led a raid to try to free slaves at Harper's Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Someone who wants to get rid of slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
This is where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the North's greatest weakness.
What is military leadership?
A strong military leader in the South who eventually orders the surrender of the Confederate troops.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This famous abolitionist is remembered for writing "Uncle Tom's Cabin", outlining the cruelty of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
What compromise allowed California to become a state?
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Rather than fight for the South, the western counties of this southern state remained loyal to the Union and broke off to form this new state.
What is West Virginia?
This side held the advantage of fighting a defensive war on their own territory.
What is the South?
A strong military leader for the Union who later goes on to become president of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Levi Coffin was credited with creating this route.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This nickname was given to Harriet Tubman.
What is Moses?