Abolitionists
Most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
The primary economy in the North was based on:
Industry
Robert E. Lee
System in which landowners allowed tenant farmers to work their land in exchange for a share of the crop.
Sharecropping
Site of John Brown's raid
Harper's Ferry, VA
Led the largest slave rebellion in American history
Nat Turner
This political party sought to prevent the spread of slavery.
Republican Party
The ______ freed enslaved peoples in the rebelling states.
Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment officially abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
Scene of the Confederate surrender
Appomattox Court House, VA
Wrote the impactful novel Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The idea that citizens of a territory could decide on whether to allow slavery or not.
Popular sovereignty
The presidential election of this year caused the secession of 7 states.
1860
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and established the principles of due process and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
Southern state that was ravaged by General Sherman and his troops.
Georgia
Self-taught former slave who published The North Star
Frederick Douglass
Finish this Dred Scott ruling: "Slaves are not _______."
Citizens
The concept that General Sherman used on his "March to the Sea"
Total war
Rutherford B. Hayes ran against _____ in the presidential election of 1876.
Samuel Tilden
The first women's rights convention was held at
Seneca Falls, NY
Captured by Robert E. Lee at his attempt to raid a federal arsenal
John Brown
Name the two political compromises meant to remedy the question of slavery, but only did so temporarily.
Missouri Compromise & Compromise of 1850
Describe the conditions for Civil War prisoners of war.
Conditions were bad; little shelter or food/resources
Name a black code.
Restricted black people's right to own property, conduct business, buy and lease land, move freely through public spaces, own firearms, etc.
Illinois; Wisconsin Territory