13.1 & More
Time "before the war", used mainly with the Civil War
What is antebellum?
Runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
Author of Uncle Tom´s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The fort in Charleston Harbor that was the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
Democrat elected president in 1856, would not act to prevent secession.
Who is James Buchanan?
Runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court.
Who is Dred Scott?
Vice president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
Fifty counties of a state that had chosen to secede formed their own government and became this state.
What is West Virginia?
Illinois senator who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Who is Stephen Douglas?
System where slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day.
What is the gang system?
Abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The Constitutional Union Party nominated this person as their candidate in 1860.
Who is John Bell?
The slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware remained in the Union and were called this.
What is border states?
The senator from Massachusetts who verbally attacked his pro-slavery colleagues and was beaten with a cane in the Senate chamber.
Who is Charles Sumner?
System where slaves worked on a specific job until it was complete.
What is the task system?
Chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision.
Who is Roger B. Taney?
When the Democratic Party split in 1860, Southern Democrats nominated this person as their candidate.
Who is John C. Breckinridge?
The South Carolina Congressman who beat a senator from Massachusetts with a cane.
Two ways American slavery was different from slavery at other times in history.
What is 1) only involved those of African descent
2) permanent condition
3) result of buying stolen Africans and selling them
Two advantages for the North in the Civil War.
What is its population was much greater than the South, it had most of the industry in America, it was adding many immigrants to its population annually?
Why Kansas was called "bleeding Kansas" in the years leading up to its vote on slavery in the territory.
What is because of the violence that took place in Kansas between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces?
South Carolina believed it had the right to secede because...
Lincoln believed it did not have the right to secede because...
What is (SC) the states were sovereign and had voluntarily joined the Union, and that when the gov. failed to protect the rights of the states, they could withdraw from the Union?
What is (AL) the Union is permanent, the Constitution had no provision for ending it, and the Constitution gave the national gov. sovereignty over the states?
Lincoln did this to ensure that Maryland remained in the Union.
What is he declared martial law and suspended the right of habeas corpus?