Vocabulary
A closing off of a area to keep people or supplies from going in or out.
Blockade
What did William Lloyd Garrison do in 1831?
He printed The Liberator, an antislavery newspaper.
Issued in 1863 and declared most slaves in certain states free
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who, on paper, had more advantages in the war effort
North
John Brown and his Free State volunteers murdered five men that were settled in southeastern Kansas. These were members of the pro-slavery Law and Order Party, but not themselves slave owners.
Pottawatomie Creek Massacre
Caused more cotton production and the increase of the institution of slavery.
What is the Cotton Gin?
Southerners hated him because he pushed slavery out and he was a president.
Who is Abe Lincoln?
Which event would have made the South the happiest-the writing of Uncle Tom's Cabin, John Brown's Raid, or the Dred Scott Decision? Why?
Dred Scott. Now slave owners could take their slaves back from anywhere they wanted and slaves were considered property.
Prominent United States political party during the late 1840s and the early 1850s. The American Party originated in 1849. Its members strongly opposed immigrants and followers of the Catholic Church.
The Know-Nothing Party
Coined to describe the violent civil disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to 1858. The violence was provoked by the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
Bleeding Kansas
Political Party founded in 1854 and supported anti slavery.
Republican Party
Leader of the Confederate Forces
Robert E. Lee
What settled the border problems between New Mexico and Texas? Stopped auctions of slaves in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth were involved in what reform movement?
What is The Abolitionist Movement?
Act that divided Nebraska into two states, Kansas and Nebraska for slave states and free states balance
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The right of people to make political decisions for themselves.
What is popular sovereignty?
Union Army general as well as the 18th president of the united states.
Ulysses S. Grant
What is Harriet Beecher Stowe most known for creating/writing and what was it about?
The Novel of Uncle Tom's Cabin, a slave's life story of being beaten to death by their master.
Idea to squeeze the South, the North's strategy
Became The 31st state of the United States of America, Following the defeat of Mexico in the Mexican-American War and settlers rebelling against Mexican rule.
California
formally withdrawing from the Union
Secede
Jefferson Davis
Battle that took place over three days that sparked the turning point of the war. Allowed Lincoln to issue a famous speech.
Gettysburg
Brown's men arrived in Virginia in order to instigate a slave rebellion. Brown's men were attacked by soldiers under Robert E. Lee on October 18th, after which Brown and several of his men were captured. He was hung for murder, treason against the State and for leading a revolt.
Harper's Ferry Raid
series of seven debates between the Republican candidate for the United States Senate from Illinois, and the Democratic Party candidate.
The Lincoln-Douglas Debate