Civil War

Question 1

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 1

Novel Depicting the cruel treatment of enslaved people, gaining support for abolition or the end of slavery

Question 2

Abolitionist

Answer 2

Antislavery stance or an activist fighting to end slavery

Question 3

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 3

Years of bloodshed in Kansas over the people’s decision about whether to be a free or slave state when joining the Union

Question 4

Supreme Court

Answer 4

The highest federal court, who rule on whether existing laws or acts align with the constitution

Question 5

Dred Scott

Answer 5

Man who appealed to the Supreme Court for freedom from slavery only to be denied the rights of a U.S. citizen in the court’s ruling

Question 6

Presidential Election of 1860

Answer 6

Election of Abraham Lincoln, prompting the secession of the 11 southern states

Question 7

Secession

Answer 7

Act of withdrawing from a political body

Question 8

Confederate States

Answer 8

The Southern states that left the Union at the beginning of the Civil War

Question 9

Fort Sumter

Answer 9

The federal base that was the site of the first gunfire of the Civil War

Question 10

Freedmen

Answer 10

Those who had been recently freed from slavery

Question 11

Emancipation Proclamation

Answer 11

Military order issued by Lincoln in 1863, calling for all enslaved people in rebel/Confederate states to be set free