Slavery
Abolitionist
Who is someone who believed that slavery was evil and should not exist?
The Republican Party's stand on slavery in the 1860's.
What is prohibit slavery in the western territories?
This state was the first to secede from the Union after Abraham Lincoln became President.
What is South Carolina?
This compromise applied only to the Louisiana Purchase.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
What is a sharecropper?
This law in 1850 said citizens must help catch runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850?
During the Lincoln/Douglas debates, Lincoln asked Douglas if the people of a territory could exclude (not allow) slavery in the territory before it became a state. Douglas's response was this.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The Southern States seceded from the Union and joined together to form this.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This president won the election of 1860 by winning the northern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This person was a Northerner who moved to the South after the Civil War.
What is a carpetbagger?
This man was a slave who filed a lawsuit for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
This principal meant that voters in a territory would decide whether or not to allow slavery.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Lincoln's election as president led many southerners to believe this.
What is the South must secede from the Union?
This was a goal of the Union at the start of the war.
What is capture Richmond?
This person is a white Southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War.
What is a scalawag?
Many Northerners were angered by the Dred Scott decision due to this.
What is it allowed Slavery in all the territories.
Lincoln's main goal as president.
What is Preserve the Union?
The statement "Let the states agree to separate and part in peace" was made by this part of the country.
What is Southern?
This battle was the turning point of the War.
What is Gettysburg?
This amendment gave all person born in the United States citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This proclamation said that all slaves in the states still in rebellion were freed.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This bureau gave food, clothing and education to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This compromise banned slavery in new territories.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This General planned to end the Civil war by fighting a total war to ruin the South's ability to fight.
Who is General Grant?
This amendment banned slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?