Causes of Civil War
Causes of Civil War Continued
National Politics
Course of the Civil War
100

In this region, slavery had ended by 1860. This region functioned through manufacturing and factories.

North

100

Author of a best-selling novel that condemned slavery

Harriet Beecher Stowe

100

a Missouri slave who sued for his freedom.

Dred Scott

100

Government of southern states that seceded from the United States and fought against the Union.

The Confederates or The Confederate States of America

200

In this region, slavery was an integral part of life. They had a large agricultural society.

South

200

legislation that divided the Nebraska territory into Kansas and Nebraska. Residents of each territory would vote to allow or outlaw slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

200

What was the major event that happened right before one of the states from the South seceded?

Election of 1860

200

Federal fort in Charleston, South Carolina, where the first shots of Civil War were fired and the Americans surrendered after a Confederate attack.

Fort Sumter

300

Voters in a territory decide whether their territory would be free or allow slavery. This is an example of what?

Popular Sovereignty

300

Proslavery residents from Missouri were known as

Border Ruffians

300

One reason why the Supreme Court ruled against Dred Scott.

He was considered property or they claimed the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional

300

The first southern state to leave the Union.

South Carolina

400

____ was a series of resolutions that made concessions to both the North and South.

Compromise of 1850

400

This group of people mainly from the North took action to save enslaved people.

Abolitionists

400

Name of the Union war plan to win the Civil War.

Anaconda Plan

400

Who was considered the "Black Moses" during the civil War because she helped free enslaved people?

Harriet Tubman

500

Name of the famous abolitionist who urged Lincoln to make the war about slavery.

Frederick Douglass

500

What happened after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed? Name of the event.

Bleeding Kansas

500

What is the 10th amendment?

Reserved powers for the states

500

Which American nurse founded the Red Cross in America and helped nurse soldiers on plenty of battlefields?

Clara Barton