Pre-Civil War
Passed in 1850, this act allowed enslavers to follow fugitive slaves to the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
A war in the United States that was fought between the Union and the Confederacy.
What was the Civil War?
A period in American history following the American Civil War
What was the Reconstruction?
Who was a strong opponent of slavery and leader of the Union Army during the Civil War?
Who is Abraham Lincoln.
It was created by anti-slavery extremists to help escaped slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
When did the civil war start and end? (Years at least 1)
1861-1865
This system in the South to help keep plantations operating after slavery ended
sharecropping
Who was a leading public speaker for the abolition of slavery and racial equality?
Who is Fredrick Douglas.
Why was the Antebellum period important?
-federal and state governments grappled with the contradiction of U.S. slavery.
-American people began their experiment in republican self-government under the U.S. Constitution.
This person was the president of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
This amendment ended slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment
This person was the most successful Northern general in the Civil War a later, a president
Who is Ulysses S. Grant (H.U.G)
One pro-slavery argument insisted that this industry could not survive without slavery, and the industry is vital to the American economy.
What is the cotton picking industry?
This event began the Civil War. The only causlty was a single Confederate horse
What is Fort Sumter
This organization set up to provide slaves with food, clothing, education, and jobs
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
Which abolitionist led an attack at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
Who is John Brown
A slave who sued his master for freedom in Wisconsin Territory, which resulted in a revolutionary trial for the anti-slavery movement.
Who is Dred Scott?
Where did Lee surrender to Grant to end the war?
What is Appomattox Court House, VA
Why did the reconstruction period end?
The compromise of 1877
Presidential election of 1876, which put Republican Rutherford B. Hayes in office in exchange for the withdrawal of federal troops from the South.
This person led the March to the Sea destroying everything in his path.
Who is William T. Sherman