People
Civil War
Dakota War
Vocabulary
Misc
100

Abraham Lincoln was elected President in what year?

What is 1860?

100

During the Civil War, the southern states were called

Confederacy

100

What happened with the annuity payments that was one reason for the U.S.-Dakota war?

The annuity payments were late or unpaid.

100

A conflict between people from the same country is called a _______. In the United States it was fought between the North (Union) and the South (Confederacy).

What is a Civil War?

100

Who won the Civil War?

The Union (north).

200

This person had lived in Minnesota, which was a free state, so he sued for his freedom. However, the court ruled that slaves were considered property.

Dred Scott

200

During the Civil War, the northern states were called _____.

Union

200

Who was the U.S.-Dakota war fought between?

The Dakota against the U.S. government and settlers

200

Someone who was working to end slavery.

Abolitionist

200

About how many settlers, U.S. soldiers, and Dakota were killed during the U.S.-Dakota war?

700.

300

Why did Charlie Goddard decide to fight in the Civil War?

He thought it would be an adventure. 

300

Slavery was not practiced in the north because they hired _______ to work in their factories, and many northerners did not believe slavery was right. 

Immigrants

300

What was someone who tried to get Dakota people to practice Christianity called?

Missionary

300

The south was upset Abraham Lincoln was elected President because he was against slavery. So they decided to _____, or leave the United States.

Secede

300

A document issued by Abraham Lincoln that stated all slaves in confederate states would be free. 

Emancipation Proclamation

400

Dakota people who resisted change and kept their regular lifestyle and culture.

Traditional Dakota

400

Slaves in the south often worked on _____.

Plantations

400

How many Dakota were hanged in the largest mass execution in U.S. history?

38

400

Yearly payments of money that were supposed to be given to the Dakota people from the U.S. government. 

Annuities

400

What was it called when Dakota adopted the European American culture and left their traditional culture behind?

Assimilation

500

Dakota people who adopted European American ways of life (assimilated).

Farm Dakota.

500

During the Civil War, Minnesota was the first state to do what?

To volunteer troops to fight. The First Minnesota Volunteer Infantry Regiment.

500

What happened to the Dakota people after the war?

They were exiled.

500

After the war, around 1,700 Dakota people were marched to Fort Snelling and help at an __________.

Internment Camp

500

After the war, what did the U.S. government do about the treaties and annuity payments?

The cancelled the treaties, and no longer had to make annuity payments. 

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