To leave or break apart from a political state (the South leaving the United States)
What is secession (to secede)?
Southerners believed that if this man was elected president, he would try to abolish slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Abraham Lincoln ran for president as a member of this political party.
What is the Republican party?
This person sued his owner in a free territory for his freedom, arguing that under the rules of popular sovereignty, he would be free in a free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
This was the first African-American regiment of soldiers in the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
In the Civil War, soldiers in the Union (North) wore this color and the Confederacy (South) wore this color.
What is blue (union) and gray (confederacy)?
This anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stow depicted the reality of slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This edict from President Lincoln declared (proclaimed) that the slaves in rebelling states were now free, and could fight in the union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Act required that all escaped slaves be captured and returned to their owners in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
This Confederate General was surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant marking the end of the war.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
These people wanted to end slavery.
What are abolitionists?
This "compromise" or law was passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and drew a line across the united states, dividing free states from slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The number of southern states that seceded from the union.
What is 11?
This battle became the bloodiest of the entire war, was won by the North, and inspired an address by Abraham Lincoln.
What is Gettysburg
After escaping slavery herself, this woman bravely returned to the south many times to help others escape via "the underground railroad."
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Stephen Douglas advocated for this, a system where citizens within each territory would vote on whether to be slave or free.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This crop changed the way Americans lived, and was grown on a vast majority of plantations in the American south.
What is cotton?
This state was the first to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
This man debated Abraham Lincoln over slavery and the future of America. He later faced Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
This man led a rebellion of slaves to seek revenge on their owners in Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
The division of powers among local, state, and federal government.
What is Federalism?
The bombardment of this fort by southern troops followed South Carolina's declaration of secession and is regarded as the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
These 5 "southern" states never seceded from the union, and were allowed to keep their slaves even after the emancipation proclamation.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
This act opened up popular sovereignty in two new territories, and led to many violent abolition and pro-slavery clashes in Kansas, which came to be known as "bleeding Kansas."
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This white abolitionist advocated for armed battle to overthrow the institution of slavery.
Who is John Brown?