Misc.
Uncle Tom's Cabin was a book about...
The cruelty of slavery
Did the northern states want to keep slavery or make it illegal?
Make slavery illegal
Who was the President of the Union?
Abraham Lincoln
What attack led to the Civil War?
Confederate troops attacked Fort Sumter
Who won the Civil War?
The Union/The North
Define secession.
When part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest
What happened in the South after the invention of the cotton gin?
What famous abolitionists were once enslaved?
Frederick Douglass and Sojourner Truth
A war between two groups or regions within a nation.
Most of the money for "The Liberator" and the Underground Railroad came from whom?
Free blacks
What did Abraham Lincoln's parents do for a living?
They grew up on a farm and did not go to school.
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
Abolitionists
How did Abraham Lincoln die?
He was assassinated in a theatre
Why did John Brown attack the Army post?
To start a slave rebellion
What made sectionalism increase? (2 things)
Tariffs and slavery
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court said...
Enslaved people were property and had no rights
What was more popular in the North? Farming or factories?
There were more factories in the North than the South.
This famous "conductor" who escaped slavery in Maryland and returned to lead slaves to freedom.
Harriet Tubman
What did the South call themselves?
The Confederacy
Why did Southern States leave the Union?
To protect their rights to own enslaved people
Define "states' rights"
The Fugitive Slave Law ordered people to...
Return runaways to slavery.
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Who said "A house divided against itself cannot stand."
Abraham Lincoln
Where did the Underground Railroad lead? (4 places)
Canada, Mexico, Florida, or the Caribbean