Compromise
Allowed states to vote on whether they be admitted into the Union as a free state or a slave state.
What is Popular Sovereignty
The act of leaving a union.
What is secession
This proclamation given by Lincoln after the Battle of Antietam declared all slaves in states who were in open rebellion against the union free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
This invention allowed regular citizens to see the devastation of war first-hand.
What is Photography
This general declined the other to lead the Union troops in order to better serve his home state.
Who was Robert E. Lee
A senator who helped compose the Compromise of 1850 also ran against Lincoln for a Senate seat.
Who was Stephen A Douglas
These slave states did not join the Confederacy but remained in the Union.
What are the Border States
This runaway slave returned to the south numerous times to help other slaves escape.
Who was Harriet Tubman
This mode of Transportation allowed spies to gather intel safely above enemy lines.
What is a hot air balloon
This tactic employed by the North hoped to cut the South off from the rest of the world and then divide the south into two fronts.
What is the Anaconda Plan
The proto-civil in this state prefigured what was to come in the Civil War.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"
John Brown and his sons took this armory hoping to incite a slave revolution but ultimately failed.
What is Harper's Ferry
What is the Underground Railroad
What is the telegraph
This was the victim of the first attack on the North by the South thus launching the States into war.
What is Ft. Sumter
This compromise allowed these two states to have popular sovereignty which drew violent groups in who rigged the election there.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
The Supreme court of this case declared that, Africans were not and could not become citizens of the United States and ruled that Africans have no rights that white men are bound to respect.
What is the Dredd Scott case
This person, believed themselves to be a messenger of God, set about to start a slave revolt much like what had been seen in Haiti years before.
Who was John Brown
Allowed the easy separation of this southern product increasing the demand for this product and bringing in more slaves to the South.
What is the Cotton Gin
This revival brought out egalitarian ideas that would help the abolitionist the movement and promote the role of women.
What was the Second Great Awakening
Restricted Texas' borders, admitted California into the Union as a free state, granted New Mexico and Utah popular sovereignty, enacted the Fugitive Slave Acts, and allowed the continuation of slavery in D.C. but banned the slave trade in D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850
This politician argued the slavery could be abolished by the Federal government. Though he lost the election he gained a following that would propel him forward into an even more powerful position.
Who was Abraham Lincoln
Allowed slave owners and slave catchers to recapture runaway slaves and punish anyone who helped them escape.
What were the Fugitive Slave Acts.
Allowed for the easy transportation of soldiers and war materials.
What is the railroad
A famous actor responsible for the death of a prominent Union leader who shouted, "Sic semper tyrannis!"
Who is John Wilkes Booth