Ohio, a Free State
Chapter 4 Vocabulary
A Nation Divided
Civil War & Rebuilding
100
This Compromise kept the number of free states and slave states equal.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820.
100
This is the name of people who fight to end slavery.
What are abolitionists?
100
The Fugitive Slave Act made it against the law to do this.
What is to help slaves escape?
100
Ohio was important during the Civil War. These two things helped deliver supplies and troops during the war from Ohio.
What are Railroads and Rivers?
200
Abolitionists agreed with the words of the Constitution that "all men were created______________."
What is "equal?"
200
This is the name of the large farms that slaves would work and pick crops.
What is a plantation?
200
The abolitionist Harriet Beecher Stowe from Cincinnati wrote this book about the conditions of slavery, and helped turn people against slavery.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
This is the number of battles in the Civil War that were fought in Ohio.
What is ONE?
300
The Liberty Party supported laws to end slavery. The Liberty Party combined with the Free Soil Party to later become THIS political party.
What is the Republican Party?
300
This is a name for a person who breaks a law and runs away from a place and hides.
What is a fugitive?
300
This is the name of the act that allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide whether to allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Abraham Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation, ending slavery and soon after, African American men in the North requested the right to serve in this.
What is the army/to fight in the war?
400
James Birney was an Ohio abolitionist from Cincinnati, and an angry group destroyed his office that printed this.
What are newspapers?
400
This is the name for a building where weapons are kept.
What is an armory?
400
On April 12, 1861, this group's forces fired cannons on Fort Sumter, starting the Civil War.
What are the Confederates?
400
This Confederate General surrendered to General Grant in 1865 at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, ending the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
500
This was the name of the system of houses, hiding places, and safe roads for slaves to escape to the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?
500
A cavalry is a _________-mounted fighting force.
What is HORSE?
500
The North and the South had different strengths as the Civil War began. These were the strengths of the North.
Possible answers:
farming and industry balance
Industry: factories that made almost all weapons in the country, railroads to move supplies, and control of the sea.
More people
500
These are the two Union victories that were called the turning point of the Civil War.
What are the battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
