People Part 1
He was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This type of war is fought within one country between its own people.
What is a Civil War?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis
The South depended on this kind of work to power its economy.
What is farming/plantation agriculture?
She was nicknamed the “Angel of the Battlefield” and later started the American Red Cross.
Who was Clara Barton?
The Civil War took place during these years.
What is 1860-1865?
These two people were Confederate generals
Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson?
The North depended more on this, so enslaved labor wasn’t as central to its economy.
What is industry/factories/manufacturing?
She became Superintendent of Army Nurses and helped both Union and Confederate soldiers.
Who was Doritha Dix?
This was the major moral debate that increased tension between the North and South.
Should people own slaves?
These two people were Union Generals
Who is Ulysses S. Grant or William Tecumseh Sherman?
This compromise said states above a line would be free, and states below the line could choose.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
He escaped slavery by disguising himself as a sailor and later moved to England to escape threats.
Who was Fredrick Douglas ?
This issue argued the federal government did not have permission to “run” the states.
What are States Rights
She used the Underground Railroad, guided others to freedom, and was called the “Master Guide.”
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Southern states feared that as the U.S. added new states, this could happen and they would lose power.
What is being outvoted/overpowered by free states?
He stole a ship during the Civil War by disguising himself as the captain and using secret codes, then gave it to the Union.
Who was Robert Smalls?
Each time a new state was added, this big debate happened: would it be this kind of state or that kind of state?
Slaves State or a Free State?
This author wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, helping many Northerners understand the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Some historians argue that these two major events actually caused the civil war
What is the Book Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Invention of the Cotton Gin