Vocabulary
What is an abolitionist?
Someone who fights against slavery.
Who was elected as the confederate president?
Jefferson Davis.
What is the Missouri compromise?
There must be one slave state for every free state and vice versa.
Who was our sixteenth president?
Abraham Lincoln.
What were border states?
state that supported both the union and slavery.
What is suffrage?
The right to vote.
What year did Lincoln win the presidency?
1860.
What was the Wilmot proviso?
No slavery allowed in what was previously Mexican owned territory.
Who wrote 'Uncle Tom's Cabin'?
Harriet Beecher Stowe.
Which states were border states?
Kentucky, Missouri and Virginia.
What is a transcendentalist?
Someone who stresses the balance of humans and nature.
What was the battle of fort Sumter?
The official start to the civil war.
What was the compromise of 1850?
When was when the north got a free state and the south got a slave law.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
A famous conducted on the underground railroad.
Name three confederate states.
South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
What is a garrison?
A reserve of troops.
What was a direct result of Lincoln winning the election?
Four southern states seceding.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska act?
States could vote to be a free or slave state.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The founder of 'The Liberator' newspaper.
Name three union states.
Maine, New York, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Kansas, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, California, Nevada, and Oregon.
What is Nullify?
To make void or useless.
BONUS
Why did the Confederates fire on fort Sumter that day?
A supply ship manned by Gustavus Fox was going to resupply fort Sumter, which had been without resupply for about three months.
What was the fugitive slave act?
A law stating any negro suspected of running away from a plantation can be brought to the south.
BONUS
Who was Gideon wells?
The unions Secretary of navy.
Which state broke into two states when it succeeded?
Virginia broke into West Virginia (North) and Virginia (South).