To leave or break apart from a political state (the South leaving the United States)
What is secession (to secede)?
100
This weapon caused the most damage and help make the Civil War the first "modern war."
What is the musket?
100
Southerners believed that if this man was elected president, he would try to abolish slavery.
Who is Barack Ob... Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This speech, by Abraham Lincoln, argued that America could not survive half slave and half free.
What is A House Divided?
100
The NYC Draft Riots were caused by this Act.
What is the Conscription Act of 1863 (or the Enrollment Act)
200
In the Civil War, the North and the South were known as...
What is the Union and the Confederacy?
200
This battle became the bloodiest of the entire war, was won by the North, and inspired an address by Abraham Lincoln.
What is Gettysburg?
200
This anti-slavery novel by Harriet Beecher Stow depicted the reality of slavery and helped fuel the abolitionist movement.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This edict from President Lincoln declared (proclaimed) that the slaves in rebelling states were now free, and could fight in the union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
This Act required that all escaped slaves be captured and returned to their owners in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
300
These people wanted to end slavery.
What are abolitionists?
300
The estimate of soldiers who died.
What is 620,000?
300
This "compromise" or law was passed in 1820, admitted Missouri to the union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, and drew a line across the united states, dividing free states from slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
The number of southern states that seceded from the union.
What is 11?
300
This person sued his owner in a free territory for his freedom, arguing that under the rules of popular sovereignty, he would be free in a free territory.
Who is Dred Scott?
400
Stephen Douglass advocated for this, a system where citizens within each territory would vote on whether to be slave or free.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
400
The number of African-American soldiers who served.
What is 180,000?
400
This crop changed the way Americans lived, and was grown on a vast majority of plantations in the American south.
What is cotton?
400
This state was the first to secede from the union.
What is South Carolina?
400
This man debated Abraham Lincoln over slavery and the future of America. He later faced Lincoln in the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Stephen Douglass?
500
The division of powers among local, state, and federal government.
What is Federalism?
500
The total number of Americans who fought.
What is 3.2 million?
500
America was becoming bigger due to this, which complicated the debate on whether newly formed states would be slave or free.
What is Westward Expansion?
500
These 5 "southern" states never seceded from the union, and were allowed to keep their slaves even after the emancipation proclamation.
What are Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, and West Virginia?
500
This act opened up popular sovereignty in two new territories, and led to many violent abolition and pro-slavery clashes in Kansas, which came to be known as "bleeding Kansas."