Who Got Mad?
This law required Northerners to return runaway enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The North’s main goal during the Civil War.
What is to preserve the Union?
The year Texas seceded from the Union.
What is 1861?
To break away from a country.
What is secede?
The compromise that admitted California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This book angered the South by showing the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
The South’s main goal during the Civil War.
What is to protect slavery and secede?
The Texas leader who opposed secession.
Who is Sam Houston?
A person who wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
The political party formed to stop the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This act caused “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Northern general who eventually defeated the Confederacy.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The event that increased tension in 1859 and involved an arsenal.
What is John Brown’s Raid?
When states believe they have more power than the federal government.
What are states’ rights?
The President elected in 1860 who triggered Southern secession.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Supreme Court case said enslaved people were property and not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
The Confederate president.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
How many Southern states seceded before Texas?
What is six?
A secret system that helped enslaved people escape.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This event in 1859 terrified Southerners because it attempted to start a slave uprising.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harper’s Ferry?
A major Southern disadvantage in the war.
What is fewer factories / smaller population / fewer railroads?
The last Civil War battle was fought in Texas at this location.
What is Palmito Ranch?
When people are loyal to their region instead of the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
The 13th Amendment did this.
What is abolished slavery?