Vocabulary
Escaped slaves who fled to the Union lines for protection.
What is contraband?
This book was written to show the horrors of slavery, and sold more copies than the Bible at the time of its release.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This side had the advantage of large amounts of farmland.
Who was the South?
This Amendment declared that slavery was abolished
What was the 13th Amendment?
This man was the President of the United States during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Withdrawal from the Federal government of the United States
What is secession?
This man raided Harper's Ferry attempting to start a slave revolt, but the raid was defeated and this man was tried for treason
Who is John Brown?
This side had the advantage of numbers, as they had a larger population.
Who is the North?
This Amendment allowed for any man to vote, no matter the color of their skin
What is the 15th Amendment?
This military strategist joined the South during the Civil War because his home state, Virginia, joined the Confederacy
Who is Robert E Lee?
A political party generally against slavery and its expansion into the territories, and had basically been swallowed up by the Democrat and Republican parties by the time of the Civil War.
Who is the Whig Party?
This FULL NAME court case ruled that any slave, even if freed, is not considered a citizen and therefore cannot have rights.
What is Dred Scott vs. Sanford?
This side had the advantage of industrialization.
Who was the North?
This Amendment made the rights of citizen concrete, ensuring that rights could not be taken away
What is the 14th Amendment?
This former United States General ran against Lincoln in 1864 on the basis of "End the War"
Who was George McLellan?
This doctrine was prominent during the debate over slavery in the territories and said that the people of each territory should be able to decide for themselves if slavery should be allowed in their territory when it became a state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This state was the only one able to enter the United States above the Mason-Dixie line that allowed slavery, because of a very specific compromise.
What is Missouri?
This side had the advantage of fighting on the home front.
What is the South?
Without due process of law, you cannot be deprived your life, your liberty, or this because of the 14th Amendment.
What is Property?
This United States General implemented the idea of "total war" to the Civil War
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The period after the Civil War when the South was reorganized and reintegrated into the Union (1865-77).
What is Reconstruction?
This encounter occurred when settlers flocked to the Kansas territory to vote on whether it becomes a slave or free state, leading to violence all across the state.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This side had the advantage of possible outside support from other countries.
Who is the South?
When the Amendment passed that allowed for everyone to vote, it did not include this certain group, who only got the right to vote almost 50 years later.
Who are women?
This was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?