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The term for the group of southern slaveholding states that declared themselves independent from the rest of the states.
What is the Confederacy?
A person who disagreed with slavery and wanted all slaves freed immediately.
What is an abolitionist?
Free soilers, Whigs, Woolheads, and Wildcats are all examples of this.
What is a political party?
In 1845 this man, a native of Andover, received a charter to build the Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad which would connect Portland to Canada.
Who is John Poor?
By the end of the Civil War Maine had sent a higher percentage of it's population to war than any other northern state, a total of this many served.
What is 73,000?
The term for the northern states that the southern states wish to seceded from.
Laws that discriminated against blacks were passed that said blacks were to be separate from whites in churches, schools, on trains and even in death, a practice called this.
What is segregation?
In 1783 a group of African Americans brought a case before this, which declared slavery to be unconstitutional.
What is the Massachusetts General Court?
The colonel who led the charge at Little Round Top during the battle at Gettysburg.
Who is Joshua Chamberlain?
In 1887 the State legislature passed the Maine Labor Law, also known as the Looney Bill, forbidding children under the age of ____ from working more than ____ hours a week.
What is 16 and 60?
"A house divided against itself cannot stand" is a quote from 1858, spoken by this man.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
A secret group of whites and free blacks who housed runaway slaves as they made their way from the south up to Canada.
What was the Underground Railroad?
This man was elected as the mayor of Portland in 1851 and used his influence to pass the Maine Law which made the sale of alcohol illegal, except for medical purposes.
Who is Neal Dow?
This man became president in 1860, was an anti-slavery man and signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
By the 1860's a depression hit Quebec and Canada and unemployment was high. In just 50 years between 1850 and 1900 this many French-Canadians came to New England and New York.
What is 300,000?
This woman from Brunswick was called " the little lady who started the big war" due to her novel titled Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The movement to decrease the amount of alcohol people drank.
What is the Temperance Movement?
A bill, drafted in 1846 as it became clear that the US was going to gain a great deal of land from Mexico, that stated that slavery would be illegal in any of this new territory.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
This man grew up in Paris Hill, was known as the "father of the Republican Party" and became vice-president in 1860.
Who was Hannibal Hamlin?
Due to pressure from western goods available to eastern people causing low prices, high taxes, and young people leaving to go west many farmers struggled, leading to this many farms being abandoned between 1880 and 1900.
What is 5,000?
The Civil War began when troops from the southern states fired upon Fort Sumter in South Carolina in this month and year.
What is April 1861?
Term for White Anglo-Saxon Protestants (WASPs) who believed that immigrants were threatening unity and stability of the United States.
What is a nativist?
This was the location where the official ceremony of the Surrender of Arms took place on April 12, 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
In Washington D.Cc the first African-American university was founded by and named for this man.
Who is Oliver Otis Howard?
In 1902 the Bureau of Labor and Statistics reported that this many Mainers were foreign born, 13.5% of the total population.
What is 93,300?