Important Figures of the Civil War
Abolitionist and Writer
Frederick Douglass
How many sides of the American Civil War
2
States' rights is the idea that states have the right to ____________________ themselves independendently from the federal government
govern
Slavery is a condition in which people are treated as _______ and forced to work without pay.
Property
The American Civil War was a major __________ fought in the United States from 1861 to 1865 between the Northern States and the Southern States.
Conflict
16th President of the United States
Abraham Lincoln
There was __________ which was know as the North and then there was the__________ which was know as the South.
Union
Confederacy
The South believed that they had the power as a state to declare any national law ________________
Illegal
The enslaved were used to grow crops like ______ and tobacco, which made a lot of money for plantation owners.
Cotton
The main cause of the Civil war was the _________ between the NOrthern and Southern states over the iss ue of slavery and rights of individual states to make their own laws.
disagreement
Helped over 300 enslaved people to freedom to freedom
Harriet Tubman
Know as the United States
President Abraham Lincoln
The Union
States that had enslaved individuals who _____________ had to be returned to enslavers even if they reached the North.
Escaped
________ and Northern newspapers printed articles supporting the Mende people
Abolitionists
The war ended in 1865 with the surrender of the __________
Confederate Army
Author of the "Uncle of Tom's Cabin", a book that highlighted the harsh realities of slavery.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Know as the Confederate States of America
President was Jefferson Davis
The Confederacy
People in the Nebraska and Kansas territores could decide whether they would becomase a state that allowed or _________ slavery
banned
_________ and his wife helped more than 3,000 people escape to freedom
Levi Coffin
The _____________ of the United States and the abolition or end of slavery with 13th Amendment
Reunification
He sued for his freedom in a major Supreme Court case.
Dred Scott
Who believed that slavery was wrong and fought to abolish it.
The Union
Kansas ________ for slavery, but many people not living in Kansas came to vote.
voted
Despite the hardships of slavery, many of the enslaved kept their ___________ alive.
Culture
The Civil War is imprtant because it led to the end of ___________ , saved the Union and reshaped the United States
Slavery