Causes
Law, passed by Congress in 1850, that made it illegal to help escaped slaves and allowed southern officials to find and return escaped slaves back to the South.
What is the FUGITIVE SLAVE ACT?
Had the advantage of a bigger population, better transportation and more money during the Civil War
What is the UNION or NORTH?
System in which African American and white abolitionists helped people trying to escape enslavement travel to safe areas in the North and in Canada
What is the the UNDERGROUND RAILROAD?
The person who led enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is HARRIET TUBMAN?
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What is ERAS?
The issue of slavery cause many southern states to do this in 1860.
What is SECEDE or LEAVE THE UNION?
Single bloodiest day during the war. This Union victory in Maryland successfully repelled Gen. Lee's attempt to invade the North.
What is the BATTLE OF ANTIETAM?
States that allowed slavery but remained in the Union during the Civil War: Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri.
What are BORDER STATES?
President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who was ABRAHAM LINCOLN?
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What is BABY SHARK DANCE?
When Abraham Lincoln, a Northern Republican from Illinois, won the 1860 election this southern state was the first to leave the Union.
What is SOUTH CAROLINA?
Union strategy to prevent supplies from reaching the South from overseas and cut off the Confederate supply line with a blockade of the southern coast line; divide the South along the Mississippi River.
What is the ANACONDA PLAN?
Concept where people controlled the decision about whether or not to allow slavery in an area.
What is POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY?
President of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who was JEFFERSON DAVIS?
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What is NETFLIX?
What is BLEEDING KANSAS?
The first "battle" that started the Civil War and happened in South Carolina
What is the BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER?
Decree by President Lincoln that declared free all enslaved people living in Confederate states and territories still in rebellion against the Union
What is the EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION?
This person was the most successful Southern general in the Civil War.
Who was ROBERT E. LEE?
Former Nickelodeon actress playing Glinda in the movie version of Wicked.
Who is ARIANA GRANDE?
1857 Supreme Court case that declared that slaves were property, not citizens.
What was the DRED SCOTT CASE?
First major battle of the war; this victory by the Confederate army made Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson a hero and convinced the Union army that the war would be very costly.
What is the BATTLE OF BULL RUN or MANASSAS?
Political agreement that admitted California to the Union as a free state while permitting popular sovereignty in the territories and enacting a stricter fugitive slave law
What is the COMPROMISE OF 1850?
Wrote the book Uncle Tom's Cabin, which spoke about the cruelty of slavery.
Who is HARRIET BEECHER STOWE?
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What is the GRIMACE SHAKE?