Slavery
A person who wanted to end slavery
What is a Abolitionist
a Annual (yearly) payment of food and money that usually arrived late for the Dakota
What is Annuity
Name the soldier from Minnesota who signed up with the Minnesota First Regiment at age 15.
Charley Goddard
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
The national event that the US government was focused on, that caused many Dakota to feel it was a perfect time to attack (since the Govenrment would be pre-occupied)
Civil War
A Supreme Court Case where a slave was trying to win his freedom because he had been brought to MN as a slave (where slavery was illegal). Supreme Court ruled against him and showed that slavery could not be legally stopped from spreading to other parts of the US outside the slave states in the south.
What was Dred Scott Trial
a government field office near the Dakota Reservation along the Minnesota River
What were the Upper and Lower Sioux Agencies?
Name for the "North"
Union
Who won the Civil War?
The North (Union)
The way many settlers react to the US-Dakota War
What is fled their homes and farms (causing more panic as they warned others of the danger)
Name ONE way Minnesota's economy benefited from slavery
1. Southern tourists would bring their slaves to vacation in Minnesota and spend money here 2. The North made money by producing clothing using the cotton picked by slaves
Dakota who adopted some European American ways, including farming like settlers
Who were Farm Dakota
Reason Minnesota was so eager to join the American Civil War
They wanted to prove their loyalty and support because they recently became a state in 1858
The 13th Amendment outlawed ______________ in all U.S. territories and states
Slavery
During the winter after the war, where were the Dakota women, children, and elders sent?
What is an internment camp at Fort Snelling
What did the Emancipation Proclamation say?
slaves had to be set free if they lived in states that were fighting the Union
This groups main goal was to make money. They owned small stores where the Dakota could buy food and supplies.
Who were Traders
The reason the Civil War started is because the South _____________________ from the Union.
Seceded
the 14th Amendment provided _______________ to all people born in the U.S. regardless of race
Citizenship
the turning point in the war, when the Dakota knew they could not win the war?
When Colonel Sibley led 1,400 soldiers to fight the Dakota
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the goals of the Civil War?
The first goal of the Civil War was to bring the nation back together. When the E.P. was announced, it gave people ANOTHER reason to fight: end slavery.
A major cause for the outbreak of the US-Dakota War
The annuity payments were late and Dakota could not buy food
This was the largest battle during the Civil War (lasting 3 days) and the northern-most battle. The Union was able to win the battle and push the Confederate army back. The Confederate Army was never able to invade the North again for the rest of the war (they went on the defensive)
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
How did people in Minnesota support the war effort? Name TWO ways.
1. Sent supplies 2. Wrote letters to soldiers 3. Women/children had to take on the responsibilities of the men off at war 4. raised money for families who had loved ones die during war
Describe southwest MN after the war.
Hardly anyone lived there. nearly all the white settlers abandoned their homes. Most of the Dakota had either fled or were exiled from the state.