Slavery
slavery was a ___ issue
A: moral, economic
Who was Harriet Tubman?
Leader of the underground railroad
When did the civil war start?
1861
Black people were counted on as a staple in large scale farming in the south. They farmed…
Tobacco, cotton
Who was president during the start of the civil war?
Abraham Lincoln
True or false: The election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 caused seven southern states to secede and form the Confederate States of America
True
Title of people who were trying to get abolish slavery.
abolitionists
Who was suing for wrongful enslavement?
Dred Scott
True or false: The War Between the States, as the Civil War was also known, ended in Confederate surrender in 1855.
False; 1865
What did the underground railroad do?
Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses established in the United States during the early to mid-19th century, and used by enslaved African-Americans to escape into free states and Canada
Who was Henry Clay?
proposed Missouri Compromise and compromise of 1850
What century did the United States experience an era of tremendous growth, where a fundamental economic difference existed between the country’s northern and southern regions?
Mid 19th century
When did slavery start?
1619
Who led Bleeding Kansas?
John Brown
On April 12, 1861, what did Lincoln order?
A fleet to resupply Sumter