Demand for Slaves and Aboilition
Someone who believed in ending slavery.
This law allowed new states to vote on whether or not they would allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This political party ran in the 1860 election under the motto "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men!"
What is the Republican Party?
Seven slaveowning states decided to secede from the United States during this meeting.
What is the Montgomery Convention?
This general surrendered to the Union, ending the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This secret network of abolitionists provided safety, resources, and transportation to enslaved people escaping the South.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This law used a new state's location to determine whether it would allow slavery or not.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This policy, which Lincoln advocated for, would have kept slavery in the South but banned it in new states.
What is "containment?"
This battle started the Civil War, as South Carolina's soldiers attacked a US military base.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This battle ended the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse?
This enslaved man lead a slave rebellion, killing over 55 slaveowners and creating fear within the South.
Who is Nat Turner?
Under the Missouri Compromise, this line was used to determine whether new states would have slavery.
What is the 36-30 parralel?
This man attacked the federal armory at Harpers' Ferry, creating fear among slaveowners that lead to secession.
Who is John Brown?
During this battle, Southern General Robert E. Lee began a new strategy of invading the North.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This Pennsylvania battle forced Robert E. Lee to end his invasion of the North and return south.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This law required law enforcement to return escaped slaves to their owners, and punished those who helped runaways.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
John Brown killed 5 pro-slavers during this event in the Bleeding Kansas Crisis.
What is the Pottawotamie Massacre?
This enslaved man sued his owner, because his owner had taken him to a free state and kept him as a slave.
Who is Dred Scott?
This battle was a major strike against the South's railways and waterways.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
"Stonewall" Jackson died of wounds he received during this battle.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville?
A man who invented the cotton gin, creating even more demand for slaves.
Who is Eli Whitney?
This was another name for the Bleeding Kansas Crisis, referencing the violence America would soon experience in the Civil War.
What is the "Tragic Prelude?"
The Dred Scott Case ruled that neither enslaved people nor their descendants could become ________.
What are "citizens?"
People may have picnicked while watching this battle, but the North's defeat forced the Union to take the Civil War more seriously.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
A Union general destroyed much of the South's economy during this campaign by burning crops and property and freeing slaves.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?