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president during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
escaped slaves had to be returned to their owners
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
100
fighting between the people of the same country
What is a civil war?
100
where weapons are stored
What is an arsenal?
100
advances in this allowed the use of rifles that shot further
What is technology?
200
most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
200
let the people of each territory decide whether it should be free or slave
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
when both give up something in order to solve conflict, no one loses
What is a compromise?
200
said, "if slavery is not wrong, then nothing is wrong"
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
unfair treatment
What is discrimination?
300
an enslaved man from Missouri, who claimed he was a free man after his owner died
Who is Dred Scott?
300
document freeing all slaves from the U.S.
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
300
to break away
What is secede?
300
Lincoln's wife name
What is Mary Todd?
300
maker of tough men's clothes
Who is Levi Strauss?
400
wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"
Who is Harrier Beecher Stowe?
400
laws to control the behavior of slaves
What are slave codes?
400
the shutting off of an area by troops or ships to keep people and supplies from moving in or out
What is a blockade?
400
John Brown led attacks on pro-slavery here to gain weapons
What is Harper's Ferry?
400
owned the land that gold was found
Who is John Sutter?
500
Confederacy's most famous general
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
slavery was not allowed in a state
What is a free state?
500
the north was called this
What is the Union?
500
secret system to help slaves escape
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
belief that the U.S. should expand west to the Pacific Ocean
What is the Manifest Destiny?