People
Causes
Compromises
Battles
Vocab
100

This person was the President of the Union

Abraham Lincoln

100

Which part of the country believed that their economy was based on their manufacturing?

North

100

This Compromise took place in 1820. It made the imaginary line between the North and the South. Anything above the line was not a slave state, anything below the line was a slave state.

Missouri Compromise

100

Why was the Battle of the Ironclads famous

Ships were made out of the iron for the first time.

100

A tax on imported goods

Tariff

200

This person was an abolitionist but was never a slave. He attacked Harper's Ferry.

John Brown

200

Which part of the country believed that their economy was based on their agriculture?

South

200

This Compromise allowed popular sovereignty to new territories.

Compromise of 1850

200

The surrender of the Civil War took place at ....

Appomattox Courthouse

200

A person who wants to put an end to slavery

Abolitionist

300

Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin

Harriet Beecher Stowe

300

The South believed that ending slavery would....

Hurt their agriculture because they would not have people to tend to the crops.

300

Congress allowed popular sovereignty to Kansas and Nebraska even though they were north of the imaginary line.

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854

300

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Fort Sumter

300

This was a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of slavery.

Underground Railroad

400

This person was a conductor on the Underground Railroad after escaping from slavery. Worked as a nurse, spy and scout for the Union army during the war.

Harriet Tubman

400

What were the 3 causes?

Slavery, states rights, and loyalty (sectionalism)

400
What state cheated by voting in the Kansas making it a slave state?

Missouri

400

Nickname Thomas Jackson got in the 1st Battle of Bull Run

Stonewall Jackson

400

People who guided escaped slaves to the next station or to freedom

Conductors

500

This person was the President of the Confederate States of America.

Jefferson Davis

500

What book described the living conditions of slavery and upset people to lead to the Civil War?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

500

This law stated that any slave that escaped to the North had to be returned to slavery. Many people in the North chose not to obey this law.

Fugitive Slave Law

500

The idea that states, not the federal government, should make their own decisions.

States' rights

500

Loyalty to one section of the country

Sectionalism