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Freed Slaves in the South. 4 scores and 7 years ago.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation ?
The 16th president and president during the Civil War.
What is Abraham Lincoln?
These two battles, fought in 1861 and 1862 respectively, shattered Northern illusions of a swift victory in the Civil War.
First and second Battle of Bullrun.
What is the Cotto Gin.
This economic system, based on agriculture and reliant on enslaved labor, was a major cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
a law passed in 1850 that made it legal to arrest runaway slaves anywhere in the United States. The slaves could be returned to their owners. A person who helped runaway slaves faced fines and jail time.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
General of the Confederate Army
General Robert E. Lee
This 1863 battle, the bloodiest of the Civil War, saw Union forces repel General Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
South Carolina
What is the first state to succeed from the union?
The debate over whether newly-admitted states should be slave or free was a key issue leading to this event, igniting the Civil War.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders (applied popular sovereignty).
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union General was fired twice for being overly cautious.
What is George B. McClellan?
What is the battle of Antietam?
A book that showed how cruel slavery was and that slaves were real people created by Harriet Beecher Stowe.
What was Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were not citizens and had no rights, intensifying tensions between North and South.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
Gave Lincoln full control of the army.
What is Martial Law?
The first and only president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle, fought in May 1865 in Texas, marked the last engagement of the Civil War, occurring over a month after General Robert E. Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
The South's belief in this concept, advocating states' rights over federal authority, played a significant role in causing the Civil War.
What is states' rights?
The South's belief in this concept, advocating states' rights over federal authority, played a significant role in causing the Civil War.
What is states' rights?
drew a line from east to west along the 36th parallel, dividing the nation into competing halves—half free, half slave.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
Won the first battle of Bull Run. General for the Confederacy. Held of the Union Forces.
Who is Stonewall Jackson.
This 1862 battle, one of the earliest in the Western Theater, secured Union control of the Mississippi River Valley.
What is the battle of Shiloh?
This political party, formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery into new territories, contributed to the sectional divide that led to the Civil War.
What is the Republican Party?
This political party, formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery into new territories, contributed to the sectional divide that led to the Civil War.
What is the Republican Party?