Atlantic Slave Trade
These people entered western and northern Africa looking to trade for slaves.
What is Europeans?
This cash crop in the American South made up nearly 60% of U.S. exports.
What is Cotton?
This violent clash occurred as a direct result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This new French style bullet led to gruesome injuries, increased casualties and a change in battle tactics.
What is the Minie Ball?
This battle was the deadliest battle of the Civil War.
What is Gettysburg?
These items were primarily traded in return for African slaves.
What is rum, weapons or other manufactured goods?
Antebellum is a Latin word that means this.
What is Pre War?
This Connecticut Abolitionist organized a revolt with the intent of arming slaves.
What is John Brown's Raid?
The South was already at a disadvantage in this technological area before Northern troops actively destroyed their ability to utilize it.
What is the Railroads?
Lincoln issued this decision as a direct result of casualties sustained during the bloodiest single day of battle at Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The type of people first sold into slavery by their African communities.
What is criminals, debtors and prisoners of war?
This barbaric act was utilized by slave owners to ensure their slaves be returned to them in the event that they escape.
What is Slave Branding?
This individual lost a Supreme Court Case in which the decision stated that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott?
Lincoln utilized this method of communication to give orders directly to the frontline.
What is the Telegraph?
This plan aimed to cut the South off from trade, its allies and it's western supporters.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The name given to the islands also known as the Sugar Islands of the Caribbean.
What is the West Indies?
Slaves commonly used this method to communicate escape routes.
What is quilt patterns?
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed both territories to vote on whether or not they'd be free or slave states, effectively ending this prior agreement.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The use of this antiseptic vastly increased soldiers survival rate by the end of the war.
What is Bromine?
This battle was a turning point in the war which gave control of the Mississippi River to the North.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This traded item led African tribes to increase the slave trade and compete amongst one another leading to long-lasting political, economic and social struggles.
What is Firearms/Guns?
This former Vice President said it was necessary to civilize slaves and most famously claimed slavery was "a positive good"
What is John C. Calhoun?
Texas was allowed to enter the Union following its Independence as a slave state for this compromise.
What is California joining as a free state?
At the start of the Civil War this bacterial infection killed nearly as many soldiers as battle did.
What is Gangrene?
Lincoln references this historic document many times in his historic Gettysburg Address, giving hope to the people of the North.
What is the Declaration of Independence?