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100
Policy that allowed the people in a territory to decide for themselves about the issue of slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
100
She helped over three hundred slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
This was the main goal of the North throughout the war.
What is to preserve the Union.
100
The place where Robert Lee surrendered to Grant to effectively end the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House?
100
He was the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
This made it clear to the country that "slaves were property".
What is The Dred Scott decision?
200
The author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" who convinced many people to oppose slavery
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
200
The South based it's reason for seceding on this principle which says that states may use popular sovereignty to decide the issue of slavery.
What is the States' Rights Theory
200
A three day battle that is known as the "turning point" of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This was the first state to secede.
What is South Carolina.
300
This event was marked by a man trying to start a slave revolt by arming slaves with weapons.
What is John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry?
300
a woman who was former slave and became a motivational speaker for equality for blacks and for women's rights.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
Better military leadership and more farm acreage.
What are advantages of the South?
300
An important "win" for Lincoln so that he could release his Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
300
fight for independence and preserve their way of life.
What were the main goals of the Confederacy?
400
This event marked the immediate cause of southern secession from the Union.
What is the Election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860?
400
Wrote an autobiography about the hardships of growing up as a slave.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
400
bigger population and manufacturing to make war supplies.
What are advantages for the North?
400
This was an example of the latest naval war technology.
What is the iron-clad ship?
400
Fighting between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces in Kansas
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
500
It provided that the remaining territory in the Mexican Cession would decide the slavery issue by popular sovereignty
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
A New Englander who believed the time for talk and compromise was over; only extreme action could end slavery.
Who is John Brown.
500
Slaves in the Conferderacy were free.
What did the Emancipation Proclamation decree?
500
General Sherman's policy of destroying everything in order to show civilians the impact of war.
What is "total war"?
500
Runaways could be arrested and sent back to their slaveholder, even if caught in a free state or territory.
What is a provision of the Fugitive Slave Act?