Major Events
The direction (North, South, East, or West) that seceded from the Union
What is the South?
Who is Harriet Tubman?
The term for people deciding an issue through vote
What is Popular Sovereignty?
What is the south?
The number of states in the United States
What is 50?
The loose network of people and businesses that led enslaved people to freedom in the North
What is the Underground Railroad?
What is to end? What is to ban?
The other state in the Kansas-Act that divided the territory into two different states and issues arise over which should be free or not
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The main different between what the South wanted vs. what the North wanted
What is the ability to have slaves? What is slavery?
The year the country tried to make a "compromise" by dividing the number of free states and slave states equally
What is 1850?
The man who killed Abe Lincoln in a theatre
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin (3 part name)
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is to free slaves? What is to give freedom to slaves? What is to end slavery?
A piece of technology that changed how soldiers and armies communicated during the Civil War and for wars to come
What is the Telegraph? or
What is the Telegram?
What is 1776?
Location of the first shots of the Civil War (in South Carolina)
What is Fort Sumter?
John Brown was an abolitionist who planned a failed raid on this famous boat
What is Harper's Ferry?
The law that the North passed that contradicted the Fugitive Slave Act
What is Personal Liberty Laws?
Leader of the confederate army / side
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The current (2025) Vice President of the United States
Who is J.D. Vance?
Today, we celebrate this holiday in the summer. It commemorates the real last day of slavery in America when Texas slaves were finally freed in 1865
What is Juneteenth?
What is suing the government?
The 5 freedoms associated with the first amendment?
What is freedom of speech, press, assembly, petition, and relgion?
Remember the docu... The new piece of weaponry that goes in a gun and causes severe damage to anyone it hits
What is the mini ball?
The last 2 states to be added to our country
What is Hawaii and Alaska?