Key People
Who was president of the Confederate States of America?
Bonus 1: Who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Jefferson Davis
**Stephen Douglas
What party was formed in 1854 by anti-slavery groups?
Republican Party
What system had slaves work in groups for set hours?
Gang system
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Bonus 1: Where did the Confederacy form?
Fort Sumter
Bonus: Montgomery, Alabama
Which region had most factories?
North
Who was the Republican president elected in 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What act allowed popular sovereignty in new territories?
Bonus 1: What book exposed slavery’s cruelty?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Bonus :Uncle Tom’s Cabin
What system allowed slaves to work after finishing tasks?
Task system
What type of states stayed in the Union but allowed slavery?
Border states
Which region was mostly agricultural?
Bonus 1: Did most Southerners own many slaves?
South
Bonus: No
Who wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What famous speech said the nation could not stay half slave and half free?
House Divided speech
Who supervised slaves on plantations?
Bonus 1: Were slave marriages legally recognized?
Overseer
Bonus : No
Why did Confederates attack Fort Sumter?
Lincoln sent supplies
Which side had more population?
North
Who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Why was Kansas called “Bleeding Kansas”?
Bonus 2: What did antebellum mean?
Violence over slavery
Bonus:Before the war
What songs expressed slave experiences?
Spirituals
What new state formed from a seceded state?
Bonus 2: What does secession mean?
West Virginia
Bonus:Leaving the Union
Which side fought a defensive war?
South
Who was the chief justice in the Dred Scott decision?
Bonus 2: Who led the raid on Harpers Ferry?
Roger B. Taney
**John Brown
What Supreme Court case denied rights to Black Americans?
Dred Scott decision
Did the law protect slaves from mistreatment?
Bonus 2: Who owned children born to slaves?
No
Bonus:The master
What did Southern states do before the war?
Seceded
Which side had more industry and railroads?
Bonus 2: Where did most immigrants settle?
North
Bonus: North