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