Chapter 9 Slavery and the Civil War

Question 1

Nat Turner

Answer 1

African American who led the most effective slave rebellion in American history.

Question 2

Oral Tradition

Answer 2

Spoken history that is passed from one person to another and from one generation to the next.

Question 3

Overseer

Answer 3

Responsible for punishing and making sure all enslaved people did what they were told.

Question 4

Segregation

Answer 4

Separation of people according to ethnic group.

Question 5

Sectionalism

Answer 5

Loyalty to one’s section or region of a country.

Question 6

Abolition

Answer 6

doing away with or ending something.

Question 7

Abraham Lincoln

Answer 7

16th President of the U.S.

Question 8

John Brown’s Raid

Answer 8

John Brown & a group of abolitionists raided a federal arsenal to get weapons to start a slave revolt.

Question 9

John Brown

Answer 9

Abolitionist who was against slavery and would use violence to end it.

Question 10

Compromise of 1850

Answer 10

A group of laws congress passed to resolve ongoing conflict between Northern and Southern States.

Question 11

Daniel Webster

Answer 11

Lawyer and member of Congress fought to preserve the Union.

Question 12

Fire eaters

Answer 12

Group of pro-slavery southerners who pushed for secession from the Union.

Question 13

Gag Rule

Answer 13

laws or rules that forbid people from discussing or debating certain topics.

Question 14

Mandate

Answer 14

Command or official order that grants rights.

Question 15

Nullification

Answer 15

Political theory that some state’s rights were decided by judge when law was null, void, or invalid.

Question 16

Pottawatomie Massacre

Answer 16

Killing of 5 people by anti-slavery activists led by John Brown.

Question 17

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 17

A novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that tells a story about the hardships of enslaved people.

Question 18

Harpers Ferry

Answer 18

Location of federal arsenal that John Brown raided to get guns to arm slaves for his revolt

Question 19

Missouri Compromise

Answer 19

Maine would be free, Missouri slave; slavery banned north of 36/30 latitude line

Question 20

Mason Dixon Line

Answer 20

Line that separated slave states from Free states

Question 21

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Answer 21

a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska Territory to choose whether to allow slavery

Question 22

Roger Taney

Answer 22

Chief Justice of the Supreme Court when Dred Scott decision was made

Question 23

Dred Scott

Answer 23

United States slave who sued for liberty after living in a non-slave state

Question 24

Dred Scott Decision

Answer 24

Slaves were property, not citizens, no matter where they are

Question 25

Battle of Antietam

Answer 25

A bloody battle in Maryland that ended Lee’s first invasion of the North. 20,000 men were killed or wounded.

Question 26

Emancipation

Answer 26

The act of setting free

Question 27

Fort Sumter

Answer 27

First battle of the Civil War

Question 28

Bull Run

Answer 28

Virginia, July 1st, 1861, the first major land battle of Civil War. Confederate victory

Question 29

Appomattox Courthouse

Answer 29

the location where General Robert E. Lee was forced to surrender, thus ending the Civil War

Question 30

Jefferson Davis

Answer 30

President of the Confederate States of America

Question 31

Gettysburg Address

Answer 31

Lincoln’s speech to honor fallen soldiers

Question 32

Robert E. Lee

Answer 32

Commander of the Confederate Army

Question 33

Commander of the Confederate Army

Answer 33

Confederate military hero who refused to yield to the Union army at Bull Run

Question 34

Battle of Gettysburg

Answer 34

July 1st-3rd (1863) Union leaders defeated General Lee. A turning point battle during the Civil War

Question 35

Ulysses S. Grant

Answer 35

Union general

Question 36

Cotton Diplomacy

Answer 36

Confederate plan to enlist England’s aid in return for continued cotton shipments

Question 37

Clara Barton

Answer 37

Nurse during the Civil War; founder of the American Red Cross