Causes of the Civil War
This is when people are forced to work without pay.
Slavery
People who wanted to end slavery were called this.
Abolitionists
This side had more factories.
North
He was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
Give one description of how slaves were treated on the Middle Passage.
like animals, violent, little food, chained, etc.
This machine led to more slavery.
Cotton gin
She helped slaves escape using the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
This side had more farms and depended on slavery.
South
What is the name of the group of black soldiers that fought during the Civil War?
Massachusetts 54th
Bloody, deadly, many weapons, dirty hospitals, etc.
This is the experience from Africa to the Americas that slaves were forced to take.
Middle Passage
He was a slave who became a powerful speaker and writer.
Frederick Douglass
What happened right after the Lincoln became the president?
The south left and made their own country.
This stopped slavery in the South.
Emancipation Proclamation
What happened to Abraham Lincoln at the end of the war?
He was assassinated.
The Supreme Court said that this man had to stay a slave.
Dred Scott
He was a white man who made a newspaper about slavery.
William Lloyd Garrison
This event in Kansas showed violence over whether slavery would expand.
Bleeding Kansas
This stopped slavery all over the country.
13th Amendment
Give one reason that Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation.
This election led Southern states to leave the Union.
Election of 1860
She wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin to show how bad slavery was.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What is the name of the country that the South made?
Confederate States of America
This means to give up or stop fighting.
Surrender
Describe two effects of the Civil War.
Slavery ended, Lincoln was assassinated, the South was destroyed, many people died.