Vocab
A person who worked to end slavery.
Abolitionist
A former slave who sued for his freedom in the Supreme Court.
Dred Scott
Pennsylvania
Battle of Gettysburg
The debate over slavery and state's rights caused this war.
The Civil War
The treatment of people as property.
Slavery
President during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
Virginia, July 1st, 1861, first major land battle of Civil War
Bull Run
Act passed in 1854 that created Kansas and Nebraska territories and abolished the Missouri Compromise by allowing states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new territories
Kansas-Nebraska Act
To separate from Union.
Secede
She led 300 slaves to freedom, because of her bravery she is the symbol of the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
South Carolina, April 12-14, 1861, start of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
This person came up with the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
A war between citizens of the same country.
Another name for the Confederate States of America, made up of the 11 states that seceded from the Union
Confederacy
Maryland, September 16-18, 1862, bloodiest single day in American military history, 23,000 died
Antietam
A sequence of violent events involving abolitionists and pro-Slavery elements that took place in Kansas-Nebraska Territory.
Bleeding Kansas
The period of time after the Civil War in which Southern states were rebuilt and brought back to the Union
Reconstruction
General for the Confederacy
General Robert E. Lee
Daily Double
Who was the first president of the United States?
An abolitionist in Kansas that killed pro-slavery men in retaliation to burning a free-soil town