Key People
This person was a slave who went to court, trying to be declared free.
Who is Dred Scott?
The number President Abraham Lincoln was.
What is the 16th?
To leave; to break away from
What is secede?
He became known for his writings and speeches against slavery.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
Lincoln was a member of this political party.
What is the Republican Party?
He led a slave revolt that killed 60 people.
Who is Nat Turner?
Lincoln studied to become this profession.
What is a lawyer?
A group of states that broke away from the Union shortly after Lincoln was elected President.
What is the Confederacy?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
He beat Lincoln in the 1858 race for the Senate?
Who is Stephen A. Douglas?
This person was a "conductor" of the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The year Lincoln was elected President for his first term.
What is 1860?
A series of many battles fought between two sections of our nation to settle primarily the question of slavery.
What is the Civil War?
He was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during the Dred Scot case.
Who is Robert Taney?
The total number of states that seceded from the Union before the Civil War broke out.
What is six?
He started an abolitionist newspaper known as The Liberator.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Lincoln's belief about slavery in each state.
What is believing that slavery should be abolished everywhere?
Areas in our nation that may have slavery, but did not break away from the Union.
What are border states?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
How Lincoln learned.
What is learning to read and write on his own?
He gave slaves guns so they could fight for their freedom.
Who is John Brown?
Douglas' belief about slavery in each state.
What is believing that each state should decide on their own?
Someone was wants to do away with slavery is known as this.
What is an abolitionist?
The book Lincoln referred to explain his beliefs about slavery.
What is the Bible?
Confederate troops attacked here to begin the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?