Causes
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
What was Harriet Beacher Stowe.
People who didn’t believe in slavery were called what?
What were abolitionists.
Who was the President of the Union and who was the President of the Confederacy?
What was Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis?
In what part of the US were more battles fought: the North or the South?
What was the South.
Who raided Harper’s Ferry?
What was John Brown.
This invention sped up the harvesting of cotton and increased the demand for slaves?
What was Eli Whitney's Cotton Gin.
Who was the major Union General?
Ulysses S. Grant
The Union represented the __________ part of the US and the Confederacy represented the ________ part.
What are the Northern and Southern?
Why did Uncle Tom’s Cabin anger northern abolitionists?
Because it depicted the evils of slavery
What about the northern economy made slavery less necessary?
The north was more industrial and didn't have large plantations
Who was the General that lead the Confederate soldiers?
What was Robert E. Lee.
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
Stoll weapons to arm abolitionists from Harper's Ferry.
What was John Brown.
He was an escaped slave who became a writer, orator, journalist , and leading abolitionist?
What was Frederick Douglass.
What was the title of the speech Lincoln gave to free slaves?
The Emancipation Proclamation
What was the March to Sea?
A campaign from Atlanta to Savannah, Union troops burned everything on the way.
A document that freed slaves?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation.
Besides slavery, what other major issue increased tensions between the Union and Confederacy?
What was the issue of states' rights.
Harriet Tubman created this escape route for slaves during the Civil War?
What was the Underground Railroad.
How did Lincoln die?
He was assassinated while watching a play with his wife.
What was one of the last battles of the Civil War where the Confederacy surrendered?
Appomattox Courthouse
Had secret stops in homes and other places and included people helping slaves secretly to escape from the south?
What was the Underground Railroad?