Antebellum
The term meaning "before the war"
What is Antebellum?
Sisters from S. Carolina who spoke out against slavery.
Who were The Grimke Sisters?
1820 Compromise that allowed Missouri into the U.S. as a slave state.
What is The Missouri Compromise?
What is the battle of Fort Sumter?
This person escaped slavery in SC, went on to become an SC and US senator, and advocated for allowing formerly enslaved men into the Union Army.
Who is Robert Smalls?
During the period of 1820-1860, issues between northern and southern states dealt mostly with the future and expansion of _________.
What is Slavery?
Former slave turned famed abolitionist.
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
Controversial part of the Compromise of 1850 that forced the return of escaped slaves to slave states.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Union strategy that prevented supplies from reaching Charleston during the Civil War.
What was the Union Naval blockade of Charleston?
The Emancipation Proclamation freed this group of people.
Who were enslaved people in Confederate states?
The increase in the slave population in the US between 1790 to 1880 was related to what invention.
What is the Eli Whitney's cotton gin?
Supreme Court case that decided that African Americans did not have a right to citizenship.
What is the Dred Scott case?
A term that means "supreme power or authority over the people", refers to letting people in an area decide.
What is popular sovereignty?
The Union military's ___________ Plan sought to blockade southern ports and cut off trade to international ports.
What was The Anaconda Plan?
General ______ of the Confederate States used a defensive strategy to defend the Confederate soil.
Who was General Robert E. Lee
The _________ states' industrial economies benefited from slave labor because cotton grown in the south was used to manufacture textiles fabrics in factories in the region.
What are the Northern States?
This free-man's failed attempt at a slave rebellion led to stronger laws restricting the rights of free black people.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
Balance of power between state and federal governments, issues over nullification, tariffs, and the spread of slavery in new territories, concerned the 10th amendment constitutional issue of _______ rights.
What are states' rights?
Confederate submarine, which was the first submarine used in warfare.
C.S.S. Hunley
African American unit led by Colonel Robert Shaw that led the assault on Fort Wagner.
Who were the 54th Massachusetts?
President Jackson's (1832) Force Act that sent soldiers to SC and the refusal of other southern states to support their efforts to secede from the union led South Carolina to not follow through with their plan to secede during what conflict over tariffs.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Term for mid-1800s people who wanted to prevent slavery from spreading into new territories.
Who were Free-soilers?
Nickname for popular sovereignty fueled conflict over slavery in which John Brown and his party killed pro-slavery settlers.
The battle that led to a Union base in SC for the naval blockade and SC's first volunteer colored regiment.
What is the battle of Port Royal?
Official declaration by South Carolina that led to 10 other states seceding from the Union.
What is the SC Ordinance of Secession?