servitude without pay or adequate compensation for work
What is slavery
100
An abolitionist who led a slave revolt in Harper's Ferry, Virginia
Who is John Brown?
100
Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
100
Disagreement between the North and South over slavery.
What is the Civil War?
100
Those who believed it was wrong for one human to own another.
What is an abolitionist?
200
A famous novel that opened peoples' eyes on slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
200
the president when the Civil War began
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
A turning point for the north in the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
200
An effort by Congress to defuse tensions between pro-slavery and antislavery factions when Missouri requested admission into the union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
200
No choices or control and often beaten and abused.
What is the life of a slave?
300
General Sherman burned everything in sight from Atlanta to Savannah.
What is the March to the sea
300
This man led the Confederate army.
Who is General Robert E Lee?
300
The place where the South surrenders.
What is the Appomattox courthouse
300
consisted of 5 bills being passed - one being California admitted as a free state and the amendment of Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Slaves were profitable and had better conditions than factory workers.
What is the South's view of slavery?
400
A belief that states should have the final authority over the federal government.
What is States' rights?
400
The general that led the Union troops.
Who is General Ulysses S Grant?
400
The place where Sherman's march began.
What is Atlanta?
400
This allowed the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to vote for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
400
Pretending to be sick, breaking tools, refusing to obey or work and learning to read and write.
What are ways of resisting slavery?
500
A person who actively fought to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
500
The first Battle of Bull Run was led by this man.
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
500
An early battle in Maryland where the Confederacy's lost resulted the support from Great Britain being stopped.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
This battle cut the Confederacy in two using a blockade and taking control over the Mississippi river.