Causes of the Civil War
The biggest issue that split the north and south.
What is slavery?
The definition of a civil war.
What is a war between people of the same country?
This is how the Dakota lost most of their land in Minnesota.
What are Treaties?
This group won the US Dakota war.
What is the United States?
President during the Civil War and US Dakota War
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
This happened to Lincoln in 1860 which upset many southerners.
What is he was elected president?
How Minnesotans contributed to the Civil War.
What is they volunteered soldiers to fight for the Union?
Annual payment of money or food.
What is an annuity?
When someone is forced to leave their homeland.
What is exile?
Name for the group of Dakota that assimilated.
Who were the Farm Dakota?
The place that slavery was legal in the US.
What is the south?
The place where many Minnesotans trained to fight during the Civil War.
What is Ft. Snelling?
The place where the Dakota would go to receive annuity payments.
What is the agency?
The location of the internment camp that the Dakota were held after the war.
What is Ft. Snelling?
The name of the slave that tried to sue for his freedom because he had lived in MN where slavery was illegal.
Who was Dred Scott?
A person that fights to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The name for the country the southern states were trying to create.
What was the Confederate States of America or the Confederacy?
Changing your culture to fit in with another group.
What is assimilation?
Describe the Dakota 38.
What is the group of Dakota that were held responsible for the war and were hanged in the largest mass execution in history?
Many of this group of people fled southern Minnesota during the US Dakota War.
Who were the settlers?
To separate from a country.
What is to secede?
What the amendments that were passed after the Civil War did.
What are: Ended slavery (13th), Made former slaves citizens (14th), Gave freed black men the right to vote (15th)
Name 3 reasons that caused some Dakota to attack Americans
What are: Annuity payments were late and not what they expected, people were starving, the felt cheated out of their land, being forced to assimilate, they thought all Dakota would be blamed for the murder of 4 settlers...?
3 results of the US Dakota war.
What are: all treaties cancelled, reservations are taken away, 38 Dakota are hanged, Dakota are forced move to an internment camp outside Ft. Snelling, almost all Dakota are exiled for MN
Indian Agent that said, “if they are hungry, let them eat grass”
Who was Andrew Myrick?