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He was formerly an enslaved African American who published an anti-slavery newspaper called The North Star.
Wha was Frederick Douglas?
This imaginary line determines the free state above the line and the slave states below this line.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
The first shot that began the Civil War happened here.
What was Ft. Sumter?
A secret system or route to help enslaved African Americans escape to the North & Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This group had more soldiers and weapons.
What was the Union?
He won the election of 1860.
Who was Abraham LIncoln?
In agreement to have an even number of states, Missouri was accepted as a slave state and Maine was accepted as a free state.
What was the Missouri Compromise of 1820?
Violence broke out in response to the proslavery result of the election in Kansas.
What was Bleeding Kansas?
The Supreme Court denied his freedom because he wasn't considered a citizen.
Who was Dred Scott?
The Union lost their first battle here when the Confederacy brought their reinforcement.
What was the first Battle of Bull Run?
He was nicknamed as "Stonewall."
Who was Thomas Jackson?
It is a law that outlines how a state could be formed.
What was the Northwest Ordinance?
This was the bloodiest day of battle—the first win for the Union.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
She wrote a novel called Uncle Tom's Cabin, which revealed the cruelties of slavery.
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The Union's strategy was to squeeze the South.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
As the confederacy president, he ordered the surrender of Ft. Sumter.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This law allows the people in the state to vote whether they want to be a slave or a free state.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
He was caught raiding Harper's Ferry with 21 other men.
Who was John Brown?
These states were afraid of losing their states' rights and freedom to keep their way of life.
What are the slave state?
This is the total number of dead and wounded soldiers combined from both sides in one day.
What was 23 thousand?
Sojourner Truth, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Harriet Tubman were all part of the movement that supported the end of slavery.
What are abolitionists?
This law enforced that the North return escaped slaves, who reached the free state, to the South.
What was the Fugitive Slave Law?
Because of this event, South Carolina was the first to secede from the Union.
What was the Election of 1860?
A huge farm that specializes in growing one crop. Many southern states rely on this for their economy.
What is a plantation?
This side fought to control the Mississippi River and to keep the whole United States of America.
What was the Union?