The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.
What is slavery?
100
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
An attack on this fort off the coast of SC began the fighting
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This man's election to the presidency prompted SC to secede in 1850.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
A person who is running away from the law.
What is a fugitive?
200
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
Turning point of the Civil War
Gettysburg
200
This man was the main leader of the Confederate forces. He surrendered to the Union leader at Appomattox Court House in Virginia.
Who is General Lee?
200
Nickname given to a state where violence and bloodshed broke out after it was decided that citizens would vote on the slavery issue.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
This woman wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
300
This act allowed two midwestern territories to vote on the slavery issue. It led to violence in bloodshed, particularly in one state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300
This man was the main leader of the Union forces. He accepted the Condederate general's surrender at Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia.
Who is General Grant?
300
Replaced slavery after it was outlawed. Essentially debt slavery
sharecropping
400
This compromise stated that slavery would not be permitted in territory from the Louisiana Purchase above 36 degrees latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
This man raided a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to arm slaves for an uprising. He was stopped by the military and hanged for his actions.
Who is John Brown?
400
This event marked the beginning of total war on the South in which both military and civilian targets were attacked and everything was destroyed.
What is Sherman's March?
400
Abraham Lincoln held a series of debates about slavery against this man.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
400
This official change to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery in any form.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, banned the sale of slaves in DC, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500
The Civil War ended with a surrender at this location.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This man assassinated President Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
This declaration freed slaves in the South and all territories which were rebelling against the Union.