Abolitionism and Slavery

He headed an abolitionists movement in

the North?

William Lloyd Garrison

Garrison was the publisher of the

newspaper called the ?

Liberator

Many religious leaders in New

England saw slavery as a violation

of____ principles?

Christian

Most famous anti-slavery or

abolitionists novel ever written?

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

The author of Uncle Tom’s

Cabin?

Harriet Beecher Stowe

The novel aroused strong feeling in the

North as well as in?

Europe

These two things scared

Southern slave owners?

Northern abolitionists and Slave Revolts

He led a slave revolt in South

Hampton, Virginia?

Nat turner

His slave revolt involved trying to capture the

city of Richmond?

Gabriel Prosser

The slave revolts led to

the passing of?

Harsh laws against fugitive

slaves

Southerners who favored

abolition were intimidated

into?

Silence

The admission of new states

continually led to conflicts

over?

Whether the states would be

slave or free

Compromises were struck in order to maintain a balance

of power in congress?

The Missouri Compromise, The Compromise of 1850,Kansas-

Nebraska Act and Popular Sovereignty.

The Missouri Compromise only

applied to what area?

The Missouri Compromise only

applied to what area?

Louisiana Territory

Slavery was prohibited

where?

North of the 36 30 Line of

Parallel

And slavery was permitted?

South of the 36 30

The Compromise of 1850 brought this state into

the union?

California

California came into the union as a

____state?

Free

All new states made from land acquired

from Mexico(Southwest Territories) were?

Decided upon by Popular Sovereignty

Popular Sovereignty

means?

The people decide for themselves

How could Kansas and Nebraska be

brought into the union?

By way of popular

sovereignty

If both could have been slave states this made what

unconstitutional?

Missouri Compromise

Popular Sovereignty produced bloody

fighting in Kansas causing it to be

called?

Bloody Kansas

Who was fighting in Kansas?

Pro-slavery and Anti-slavery

people

This party was formed that same year opposing the spread of slavery?

The Republican

Party

Southerners also believed that they did not have to obey laws they felt were unfair.

This was called?

Nullification

They also believed that if you entered the

union freely you could leave it the

same way. This was called?

To secede

An interesting debate took

place between ?

Stephen Douglas and

Abraham Lincoln

Douglas favoring____and

Lincoln favoring___?

Popular Sovereignty and

opposing the spread of slavery.

In their quest for the senate seat in

Illinois who won?

Stephen Douglas

Lincoln warned, “a house divided against itself can

not_____?

Lincoln warned, “a house divided against itself can

not_____?

Stand

The nation can not continue half____ and half_____.

Slave and half Free

The Civil War

This triggered a long and costly war

between the southern states and the northern states?

Secession of Southern

States

Southern States seceded from the union upon the

election of ______in 1860 as president?

Abraham Lincoln

The civil war put our government to

its greatest test debating federal

power v. ?

States Rights

Major political and military events of the Civil War.

What was the southern reaction

to Lincolns election as president?

Some southern states leave the

union.

What fear did southerners have about Lincoln?

Feared Lincoln would abolish

slavery.

The opening confrontation of

the war took place in South Carolina at?

Fort Sumter

After the Battle of Antietam Lincoln

issued his ?

Emancipation Proclamation

Biggest turning point in the

war?

Gettysburg

At what place will the Civil

War end ?

Appomatox

Key Leaders of The War

Who was the president of the United States

during the civil war?

Abraham Lincoln

Lincoln believed that the Union had

to be held together by ____if

necessary.

Force

He was the most successful

military officer for the Union?

Ulysses S. Grant

He took command of the Union army

after many officers had

failed?

He was the head of the Confederate Army of Northern

Virginia?

Robert E. Lee

General Lee opposed secession

but, he also believed the Union should

not be?

Held together by force

General Lee surrendered at ____ eventhough many

southerners wanted to continue to fight.

Appomattox

Abolitionist who influence Lincoln to recruit former slaves

into the Union Army?

Frederick Douglas

How the Emancipation Proclamation expressed

Lincoln’s war aims.

Did Lincolns Emancipation

Proclamation free all slaves?

NO

It only freed slaves?

In states still rebelling from the

Union.

The Emancipation Proclamation

made_________a war aim.

The destruction of

slavery

What did the Emancipation

discourage?

Any interference of

foreign governments.

Linciln’s vision of the United States as professed by the Gettysburg

Address?

The purpose of the civil war

according to the Gettysburg Address?

Preserve the nation

The Nation was dedicated to the proposition that?

All men and women are

created equal

Our nation is ruled by a

government of the ___by the___and

for the___.

People

Lincoln believed America was one

nation not a collection of

sovereign_____?

States