Slavery
The Fugitive Slave Act made it a federal crime to:
Help escaped slaves
What is the first battle of the Civil War?
Bull Run
The Compromise of 1850 created the Fugitive Slave Act, but also created what state?
California
Eli Whitney is responsible for what invention?
Cotton Gin
What event forces the first seven states to secede from the Union?
Lincoln's election
Which territory had a bloody small scale civil war over the issue of whether this territory became a free state or slave state?
Kansas
What is the bloodiest battle of the Civil War?
Antietam
What was the 13th Amendment?
Ended slavery
Which General leads the Union march to capture Atlanta?
Sherman
Harriet Tubman was best known as a ________
Conductor on the underground railroad
The Emancipation Proclamation freed what slaves?
Slaves in states that seceded
What is the biggest battle of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
What was the 14th Amendment?
Gave citizenship to anyone born in the country
Fanatical and bloody-minded abolitionist martyr admired in the North and hated in the South for his work in Kansas and Harpers Ferry
John Brown
What was the title of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s influential book about southern slavery?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What Supreme Court case ruled that African-Americans had no right to bring about a lawsuit and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories?
Dred Scott
What would be the best definition of Total War?
Destroying everything that the enemy could use to help them in the war effort.
What was the 15th Amendment?
Gave voting rights to any male citizen
Who becomes President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Who led the most successful slave rebellion in American history?
Nat Turner
What were the border states?
Northern states that still allowed slavery
The Civil War is started when the Confederacy tries to take which fort?
Ft. Sumter
Congress passed the Enforcement Act to fight which group?
KKK
Who does Lincoln fire from his role of leader of the Union Army twice?
George McClellan
The Freedmen’s Bureau was established to help:
All southern people