Battles
This battle was the turning point of the war.
Where is Gettsyburg?
Escaped slavery and became a public speaker who made speeches and wrote articles convincing many to end slavery. He helps convince Abraham Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
The belief that a person's region was superior to other sections of the country. Loyalty to region over nation.
What is Sectionalism?
A compromise created by Henry Clay designed to maintain peace between slave states and free states. In order to maintain a balance of slave and free states Missouri would enter the country as a slave state while Maine would enter as a free state. A line would also be drawn along the southern border of Missouri, across the country. In the future all states north of the line would be free while states south would be slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
(1820)
Owned an Anti-Slavery newspaper known as “The Liberator” that helped shape many opinions about ending slavery.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The mass destruction caused by this would help lead to the Confederates' eventual surrender.
Where is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
Author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” which was written in response to newly passed Fugitive Slave Law. This book had a major impact on the nation's opinion about slavery, convincing many to become abolitionists.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
People with the goal of ending slavery.
What is abolitionist?
A law passed by President Franklin Pierce stating that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would decide to be free or slave states through popular sovereignty. This angered northern states as these states should have been free based on the Missouri Compromise. This leads to a time period known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is Kansas Nebraska Act?
(1854)
In 1831 Turner led a slave revolt killing over 60 slave owners. Turner killed his owner and his owner's family. He was executed along with 100 others who died from his revolt.
Who is Nat Turner?
After the Union Victory, Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation calling for an end to slavery.
Where is Antietam?
Most famous for her work as a suffragette, she also worked as an abolitionist along with Frederick Douglas and spoke out against slavery.
Who is Susan B. Anthony?
Large farms that relied on slave labor in order to grow cash crops (Cotton, Tobacco).
What is Plantation?
A period of violence that erupted in Kansas as pro and anti slavery forces moved into Kansas before voting on the Kansas territory becoming a slave or free state.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Born to enslaved parents and sold to various owners. Filed the first successful lawsuit by any black person against a white man. Famous for her “Aint I a Woman” Speech and speaking out in favor of women and abolitionism.
Who is Sojourner Truth?
This battle happened so close to Washington D.C. that many watched the battle from a nearby hillside.
Where is Bullrun?
Fought violently against slavery famous for fights during “Bleeding Kansas”. He led the raid on Harpers Ferry in which he planned to steal guns and arm slaves in the hopes they would kill their owners and escape. He was captured and executed and was viewed as a terrorist in the south and a hero in the north.
Who is John Brown?
Secret system of houses used by slaves to travel to, and stay at as they made their way to freedom in the north. (Organized by Harriet Tubman)
Whta is the Underground Railroad?
A compromise created allowing California to enter as a free state. The areas gained in the Mexican Cession would be decided through popular sovereignty (The people will vote). The international slave trade was banned and a stricter Fugitive Slave Act was passed.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Who is more richer and why?
The north is more rich because they
Believed in tariffs
Relied on the south for agriculture
Focus on manufacturing and factory work
More factories, roads, railroads, telegraphs, canals.
The Confederates lost their general Stonewall Jackson. (Friendly Fire)This allowed the Union to push forward closer to the Mississippi River. Hint: Most bloody battle in the Civil War, more than 23,000 men died during this battle.
Where is Shiloh?
Escaped slave and abolitionist famous for helping escape enslaved people through a secret network of safe houses known as the Underground Railroad. Her bravery led around 300 slaves to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Laws put in place stating that those aware had to report escaped slaves that had moved to the north or face a fine. This allowed slave owners to more easily capture escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Dred Scott had been a slave and moved with his owner to the free states of Illinois
Returns to Missouri, Scott’s owner died. Antislavery lawyers helped Scott to file a lawsuit arguing that because Scott had lived in a free territory, he had become a free man.
1) Dred Scott could not file a lawsuit because as an enslaved person he was not a citizen.
2) The ruling stated that all slaves are to be considered property.
3) Congress does not have the power to outlaw slavery in any territory, meaning the Missouri Compromise was Unconstitutional.
What is Dred VS Scott?
Who won the war?
The north/union.