Before the war
The name for large farms in the south where many enslaved people worked.
What are plantations?
In general, you had to be these two things to vote in the election of 1860.
What are white and male?
The official names for the North and the South sides of the war.
What are the Union and the Confederacy?
Name two ways in which enslaved people resisted captivity.
Attempting to escape, breaking tools, working slowly, learning to read or write, making art or music, etc.
This amendment declared that slavery was illegal throughout the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This area of the country relied more on factories and industry than large farms.
What is the North (or the Northeast)?
Name two of the four main issues in the presidential election of 1860.
What are slavery in the South, slavery in the Western territories, the transcontinental railroad, and homesteads?
Name one advantage that each side held in the war.
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This network of abolitionists helped enslaved people escape to free states in the North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The Fourteenth Amendment declared that anyone who was this was a U.S. citizen.
What is born in the United States?
As part of the compromise of 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, which said that Northerners had to do this.
What is to help return enslaved people who had escaped?
He was the president of the Confederacy.
Abraham Lincoln gave a speech at this battlefield in Pennsylvania commemorating the soldiers who had died.
What is Gettysburg?
This document declared that slavery was illegal in the South.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Hiram Rhodes Revels was the first Black American to do this.
What is to serve in the U.S. Congress?
Thousands of people traveled to this Midwestern state in the 1850s to vote on whether slavery should be allowed, leading to violence and riots.
What is Kansas?
This person was Abraham Lincoln's vice president, and took over as president after Lincoln was assassinated.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
The number of casualties in the Battle of Fort Sumter.
What is zero?
This abolitionist attempted to lead a slave revolt by attacking an armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
The Fifteenth Amendment declared that people could not be prevented from voting based on their race or a past history of this.
What is being enslaved?
This bestselling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe presented the evils of slavery to a wide audience.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Name all four candidates in the presidential election of 1860.
Who are Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, John C. Breckinridge, and John Bell?
During the Seven Days Battles, the Union army attempted to march to this city, but were defeated.
What is Richmond, Virginia?
To within a factor of 10, the number of people captured in Africa and sold into slavery in the Americas.
What is 12-13 million?
On June 19th, 1865, in this town in Texas, General Granger announced that "all slaves are free."
What is Galveston, Texas?