Vocabulary (events and terms)
Abolitionists
Events Leading to the Civil War
Events Leading to the Civil War 2
Misc.
100
rights and powers independent of the federal government that are reserved for the states by Constitution
What are states' rights?
100
a person who favors doing away with slavery
What is an abolitionist?
100

admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the remaining Louisiana Purchase lands located north of the 36º 30' parallel

What is the Missouri Compromise?

100
Novel that introduced the cruelty of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
President that won the election of 1860 President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200

A term meaning "before war". It was often used to describe the United States before the Civil War.

Antebellum

200
an abolitionist who helped runaway slaves escape to the north and was a successful conductor on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
South Carolina threatened to secede the Union after Congress placed a tariff on manufactured goods
What is the Nullification Crisis?
200

House divided speech by Abe Lincoln

countered that the Dred Scott decision the previous year had already opened the doors for slavery to be legal in the north, as well as all territories that the U.S. expanded into

200
impact of the cotton gin
What is increase in slave labor in the south?
300

a society and economy dependent on agriculture and farming

What is agrarian?

300
Led a failed raid on an arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859
Who is John Brown?
300

divided the land from the Mexican-American war into 2 territory, slave trade abolish, Fugitive Slave Act revised, and defused disagreement between free and slave states. CA added as free state. 

What is the Compromise of 1850?

300
required all citizens to help catch runaways
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
400

withdrawal from Union

What is secession?

400

Name two or more abolitionists and the contributions they made

Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucretia Mott, David Walker and other men and women devoted to the abolitionist movement awakened the conscience of the American people to the evils of the enslaved people trade

400

Impact of the Fugitive Slave Act

required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state + made the federal government responsible for finding, returning, and trying escaped slaves.

400

This "attack" marked the beginning of the Civil War

What is the attack on Fort Sumter?

400

First state to secede from the Union + Seceded after election of 1860

What is South Carolina?

500

the United States as one nation united under a single government. During the Civil War the _____ came to mean the government and armies of the North.

What is Union?

500

Abolitionist movement 

The Abolitionist movement in the United States of America was an effort to end slavery in a nation that valued personal freedom and believed “all men are created equal.”


500
Stated that settlers in Kansas and Nebraska would decide whether slave or free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500

Ruling of Dred Scott supreme court case

not a citizen, property, congress couldn't prohibit slavery in any territory

500
States that seceded from the Union were called_________
What is the Confederate States of America?
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