Question | Answer |
What were the primary industries of the North and South? | Factories/Cotton Plantations |
What is an abolitionist? | People who wanted to end slavery now |
Name 2 Famous Abolitionists (William Lloyd Garrison and Frederick Douglas) and their effect on the anti-slavery movement: | Authors, spokespeople |
What was the Underground Railroad? | A series of houses to help slaves runaway |
Who was the famous conductor on the Underground Railroad who was a former slave? | Harriet Tubman |
Compare and contrast differences between the North and the South: | North - Urban/factories and South -Rural/plantations |
What was the Fugitive Slave Law? | Any slave that escaped had to go back |
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe? | The author of Uncle Tom's Cabin |
Who first suggested for the South to secede? | John C. Calhoun |
What does it mean to secede? | Break away |
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act? | Repealed the Missouri Compromise |
Who was Dred Scott and what were the results of his trial? | Officer of the US Army, slave, trial was not successful |
What was John Brown's plan? | To attack the arsenal at Harpers Ferry (failed) |
Who won the election of 1860? | Lincoln |
Where were the first shots fired in the Civil War? | Fort Sumter |
Where was the first land battle of the Civil War and who won the battle? | Bull Run - Confederate Army won |
What was the name of Winfield Scott's plan and what did it propose? | Anaconda plan - proposed strategy for subduing seceding states |
What was the Emancipation Proclamation? | A paper that Lincoln made to free slavery |
Wo was the General for the Union Army? Confederate? | Grant/Lee |
Who was stonewall Jackson and why do we remember him today? | General for confederate army - His death was a huge blow to the confederate army and a boost to the Union & General Lee |
What was the formal name the confederacy gave to their newly formed nation? | Confederate States of America |
Who was its president? | Jefferson Davis |
Who was the founder of the American Red Cross? | Clara Barton |
Why was the battle of Gettysburg so significant? | Turning point |
Who won the Civil War | Union |
Who assassinated President Lincoln? | John Wilkes Booth |
What did the 14th amendment state? | Defines the rights of Citizens & voting rights |
abolitionist | A person opposed to slavery and in favor of ending it right away |
arsenal | a building where weapons are stored |
blockade | a military strategy that aims to cut off supplies going in and out of an area |
compromise | a settlement of difference between two or more sides reached by each side giving up some of what it wanted |
fugitive | one who flees or tries to escape |
urban | having to do with cities or towns |
rural | having to do with the countryside and agriccure |
secede | to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation |