Define

Question 1

Missouri Compromise

Answer 1

admitted Maine as a free state, Missouri as a slave state, and made free soil all western territories north of Missouri’s southern border.

Question 2

Compromise of 1850

Answer 2

The bill included California entering the Union as a free state, defining Texas’s border in return for debt relief, establishing New Mexico and Utah as official territories, and finally banning the slave trade in the District of Columbia in exchange for a new fugitive slave law.

Question 3

Fredrick Douglas

Answer 3

Escaped Slavery
Supported other movements like the women’s right movement
Wrote Narrative of the life Fedrick Douglas, as an American Slave
Became a national leader of a abolitionist movement

Question 4

Sojourner Truth

Answer 4

Abolitionist who escaped slavery in New York
First black women to win a court case againts a white man
Helped recruit black troops for Union army during civil war

Question 5

Harriet Tubman

Answer 5

Slave that discovered the Underground Railroads
13 missions and saved 70 people

Question 6

Underground Railroad

Answer 6

Underground Railroad was a series of secret routes and safe houses used to help slaves escape slavery in the south
Estimated that 100,000 slaves escaped slavery using the Underground Railroads

Question 7

Fugitive Slave Act

Answer 7

The act required that slaves be returned to their owners, even if they were in a free state.

Question 8

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Answer 8

Written by Harriet Beacher Stove
Everybody was talking about the horrors of slavery
Uncle Tom’s Cabin focuses on the struggles of a slave, Tom, who has been sold numerous times and has to endure physical brutality by slave drivers and his masters.

Question 9

Bleeding Kansas

Answer 9

(1854-1861)
Conflict over whether Kansas would be a slave or a free state
Electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and murders in Kansas territory
Result of the Kansas Nebraska act
“Tragic Prelude” to the American Civil War

Question 10

Bleeding Sumner

Answer 10

Senator Charles Summer (Massachusetts) violently beaten by the Representative Preston Brooks (South Coralina)
Summer almost died

Question 11

Republican Party/Abraham Lincoln wins 1860 election

Question 12

Dred Scott Case

Question 13

Lincoln Douglas Debates

Question 14

Battle of Ft. Sumter

Question 15

Border States

Question 16

Anaconda Plan

Question 17

Strengths and Weaknesses of the North and the South

Question 18

Contraband Camps

Question 19

Homestead Act

Question 20

Confiscation Acts

Question 21

Battle of Antietam

Question 22

Battle of Gettysburg

Question 23

Sherman’s March to the Sea

Question 24

Appomattox Courthouse