Vocabulary
The movement to end slavery, advocating for its immediate and complete elimination.
What is abolitionism?
He was elected President of the United States in 1860, which led South Carolina to secede from the Union beginning the Civil.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
An agreement that admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state to maintain a balance between slave and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The side which won the Civil War.
What is the Union or (North)?
To have an exaggerated devotion to the interests of a region.
What is sectionalism?
A former enslaved woman who became a "conductor" on the Underground Railroad and served as a spy for the Union Army.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This case concluded slaves were not citizens and therefore had no rights under the Constitution.
What was the Dred Scott decision of the Supreme Court?
This event was considered the last straw which led South Carolina to secede from the Union?
What is the election of 1860?
True or False, this was made into a Federal Holiday in 2021.
What is true?
The name of the time period in the United States meaning before the Civil War?
What is Antebellum?
A famous abolitionist who created a newspaper called the North Star and encouraged Abraham Lincoln to allow African Americans to serve in the Union Army.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
An 1850 law requiring the return of escaped slaves to their owners, causing outrage in Northern states.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
True/False:At the beginning of the Civil War, the main objective for Lincoln was to end slavery.
False: Lincoln's main objective was to preserve the Union.
Juneteenth celebrates the end of this institution in the United States.
What is slavery?
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union, leading to the formation of the Confederate States of America.
What is secession?
The general of the Confederate Army, who many states in the South still memorialize through statues and other public works.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
1854 law that allowed residents of Kansas and Nebraska to decide on the issue of slavery through popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Lincoln changed the goal of the Civil War to freeing the slaves through this document.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
The name of the town in Texas which began the celebration of Juneteeth on June 19th, 1866.
What is Galveston Texas?
The idea that the residents of a territory should decide whether to allow slavery through a vote or election.
What is popular sovereignty?
The white abolitionist who fought against slavery in "Bleeding Kansas," and later tried to arm slaves and launch an attack against plantation owners at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Set of laws intended to settle disputes over slavery, including the admission of California as a free state, Texas as a slave state, and the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
The number of African Americans who served in the Union Army during the Civil?
What is approximately 180,000?
The reason Juneteenth was first celebrated a little over a full year after the Civil War had ended.
What is it took a long time for news to travel and federal troops to enforce the Emancipation Proclamation throughout the entire country?