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The best-selling novel Uncle Tom's Cabin became an instant best seller in 1852 and was written by:
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What building did the Abolitionist, John Brown's group, attack?
a government storehouse of guns
Who was named the Confederate President at the Confederacy's Convention?
Jefferson Davis
Who was an important African American woman who took part in the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
__________________ was a Union General who resigned after his state seceded from the Union.
Robert E. Lee
How did the states that seceded from the Union reorganize themselves?
- formed their own government: Confederacy
- elected Jefferson Davis to be President
Nat Turner
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
a. It was part of the Compromise of 1850.
b. A law that was very unpopular in the North.
c. It required all Americans to turn in escaped slaves to authorities.
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
Which two states were allowed into the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise?
Maine and Missouri
In what region of the United States were most of the Nation's cities located by the 1850's?
North
What event started the Civil War?
Confederate forces fired on Ft. Sumter, which was still controlled by the Union.
Who was the Civil War President?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the significance of Fort Sumter?
- first shots of the Civil War were fired
- Confederate troops attacked Union troops at Ft. Sumter
Abraham Lincoln
"A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure...half slave and half free." -Abraham Lincoln
What was Lincoln explaining with this quote? Choose TWO answers.
a. His ideas about architecture
b. His position on slavery
c. His thoughts on government
d. His life in Washington, D.C.
b. His position on slavery
c. His thoughts on government
large farming plantations
From which region did African Americans migrate to other regions?
a. the North
b. the South
c. the East
d. the West
b. the South
The Compromise of 1850 admits California as a free state, but grants popular sovereignty to the Utah and New Mexico territories. What is popular sovereignty?
The right to decide whether to be a free or a slave state
________________ was an escaped slave, writer and speaker against slavery.
Frederick Douglass
An escaped slave, writer, and speaker against slavery
Why did Southern states secede from the Union after President Lincoln was inaugurated?
They were fearful that Lincoln would abolish slavery in their states.
A ___________ war is a war between people in the same country.
civil
"National leaders often decide issues based on what was best for their section or region."
What is the word for regional loyalty described above?
Sectionalism
The Election of 1860 saw how many candidates run for President?
4
This woman believed that God called her to preach freedom; she traveled up and down the land:
Sojourner Truth
First woman to organize a "Women's Rights Convention" in Seneca Falls, NY
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In the Dred Scott decision, the Supreme Court ruled that:
Dred Scott and all formerly enslaved people could never be citizens.
Which of the following is true regarding the Compromise of 1820?
Maine is added as a free state and Missouri is added as a slave state.
South Carolina
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
It gave Kansas and Nebraska popular sovereignty over slavery.
"My main objective in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not to either save or destroy slavery."
Based on this quote, what was Lincoln's goal in going to war with the South:
to keep the Union together
Wrote the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Believed God called her to preach freedom; Traveled up and down the land
Sojourner Truth
A Union General who resigned after his state seceded from the Union
Robert E. Lee