What congressional action allowed California to enter as a free state
Compromise of 1850
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Name of person who got elected as 16th president
Abraham Lincoln
Which battle was the turning point and made the south give up on invading the north
Battle of Gettysburg
Definition of the “Civil War”?
A conflict between citizens of the same country
What law made it illegal to help runaway slaves?
Fugitive Slave Act
What state was the first to secede from the union after the election of 1860?
South Carolina
This woman was wanted by southerners for helping slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
Where did the Civil War officially end with Lee surrendering to Grant in 1865
Fort Sumter, SC
What inventions caused a surge in demand for slave labor?
Cotton Gin
What was one result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Fighting Broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups
A series of violent civil confrontations in Kansas Territory, and to a lesser extent in western Missouri, between 1854 and 1859 is known as what.
Bleeding Kansas
Who was a violent opponent of slaver
John Brown
One immediate result of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it
Ordered all Southern slaves to be freed
The North made their money by _______ while the South made their money by __
North = manufacturing/factories
South = farming/agriculture
Which Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved persons were property?
Dred Scott Decision
What was John Brown's aim for his raid at Harper's Ferry?
Create a slave rebellion that would bring an end to slavery
Who was appointed general of the confederate army and remained loyal to his state of Virginia
Robert E. Lee
What is the thirteenth amendment?
Forbade slavery and involuntary servitude
What "network" assisted African Americans to escape slavery?
Underground Railroad
Which compromise was the first to define how slavery would expand into new U.S. Territories?
Missouri Compromise
The Kansas-Nebraska Act and the issue of slavery led northern abolitionists to form which party?
Republican Party
Who was the appointed general of the union armry?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the significance of the battle of Antietam
This battle was the bloodiest single day battle in U.S. History
Northerners and Southerners began to clash, this was known as what?
Sectionalism