Famous People
Vocabulary
Laws
And the Kitchen Sink
I don't remember that!
100
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
Any war between two groups in the same country.
What is the Civil War?
100
In 1850, this law said that a slave was still property of his owner even if she or he was in a free state.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
100
Refers to states that stayed loyal to the union but also kept their slaves...The Emancipation Proclamation did NOT free slaves in this states.
What are border states?
100
It doubled the size of the United States in 1803.
What is the Louisiana Purchase
200
He lead a famous slave rebellion in Southhampton County, Virginia in 1831.
Who is Nat Turner?
200
Workers who had to work for free for a certain amount of years in order to pay for their journey to the U.S.
Who are indentured servants?
200
In 1820, Congress said that every time a slave state entered the union, a free state would enter the union.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
Proportion or percentage of the U.S. population that was enslaved in 1860
What is 1 in 8, or 13%?
200
This famous president was a slave trader and a proponent of the Trail of Tears.
Who is Andrew Jackson?
300
He lead the raid at Harper's Ferry in 1859. Some called him a hero, others called him a madman.
Who is John Brown?
300
This word means "to free"-- and is the title of one of Lincoln's most famous acts during the Civil War.
What is Emancipate/ Emancipation?
300
In a terrible 1858 ruling, the Supreme Court ruled that African-Americans could not be citizens.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
300
Ms. Blake grew up in a town of 7,000 which happens to be the "Birthplace of the Republican Party". Her hometown is in this state.
What is Wisconsin?
300
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln ordered the hanging of 38 Dakota men in this Minnesota city.
What is Mankato?
400
He led the 54th Mass. Regiment, the first African-American regiment in the Civil War.
Who is Robert Shaw?
400
Being VERY harmful to someone because they are different.
What is persecution?
400
In 1854, Congress said that each new state would determine whether it would be a free or slave state through popular vote
What is Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
This invention make slavery much more profitable.
What is the cotton gin?
400
This term describes the popular 19th century idea that white settlers and the U.S. government had a right and duty to conquer and "civilize" the Western land and its people all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
What is Manifest Destiny?
500
Author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin"-- some consider her powerful novel one of the causes of the Civil War!
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
500
Referring the period in U.S. History before the Civil War.
What is antebellum?
500
Finally! This amendment abolished slavery, and Daniel Day-Lewis can tell you all about how it was passed. (Also important: the 15th amendment said you cannot deny anyone--well, any man-- the right to vote based on race).
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
Term that refers to the terrible journey slaves had to take across the Atlantic
What is the Middle Passage?
500
This treaty ended the War with Mexico.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
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