Important dates
The slave trade ended this year.
What is 1808?
The 16th President of the United States of America.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
For every 1 African Americans there were _____ Americans
What is 5?
The state where Abraham Lincoln was born.
What is Indiana?
Congress will create a territory or territories along with all their laws.
What is step one of turning a territory into a state?
The cotton mill was invented this year.
What is 1810?
The senator of Illinois in 1858.
Who is Stephen Douglas?
The United States was split into 2 parts, this part favored slavery.
What is the south?
This state is where Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Pennsylvania?
When the population of a territory reached 5 thousand adult males, they were to elect a state representative.
What is step two of turning a territory into a state?
What is April 14, 1865?
The Confederate's first and only president.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This group of people wanted to move slavery out West.
What are the Southern slaveholders?
The states that seceded rom the Union after Abraham Lincoln was elected president. (You only have to list one.)
What is SC, MS, FL, AL ,GA, LA, and TX?
No state can prevent a person from voting because of his race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
A battle happened at Harpers Ferry, WV this day.
What is October 16, 1859?
A famous conductor for the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
When a freedman uses a plantation owner's land to grow crops for free in exchange for sharing their crops with the owner.
What is sharecropping?
The states that seceded from the Union after the battle at Fort Sumter. (You only have to list one)
What is AR, VA, NC and TN?
When the population of a territory reached 60 thousand free inhabitants, the territory would ask to join the Union.
What is the third step of turning a territory into a state?
The date General Lee surrendered to end the Civil War.
What is April 9, 1865?
An African American slave that lived in MO but found out he was considered free when he lived in IL and WI.
Who is Dred Scott?
The jobs a salve could have. (You can list only one.)
What are house servant, carpenters, blacksmiths, brick makers, barrel makers, and field workers.
The act that included the formation of two states and repealed the Missouri Compromise. (What are the two states?)
What are Kansas and Nebraska?
All former slaves were US citizens and states were to treat everyone with equality.
What is the 14th Amendment?