55thth Grade Civil War Grade Civil War Study Guide Study Guide

55thth Grade Civil War Grade Civil War Study Guide Study Guide

Mrs. Thornburg’s Version Mrs. Thornburg’s Version

This person led a raid on Harpers Ferry

John Brown

Who is a person that runs away from the

law?

Fugitive

This is a war between opposing groups of the same

country

Civil War

The 11 Southern States that separated from the United States in 1860

Confederacy

What is a tariff?

Tariff is a tax charged by a government on imported goods.

What is discrimination?

Discrimination is a treatment of people based on a class or category

rather than individual merit.

This was a secret system that helped runaway slaves escape to Canada or

the free states.

Underground Railroad

These people printed antislavery newspapers and spoke against slavery to try and end slavery.

Abolitionists

These people wanted more enslaved people to produce cotton, and that

was why it was so important to Southerners.

Southern Farmers

In this case the Supreme Court ruled that slaves were considered

property, and therefore had no rights.

Dred Scott

This law stated that escaped slaves found in the North were required to be returned to their owners in the

South.

Fugitive Slave Law

What was the leading cause of conflict between the North and the

South?

Each side disagreed about slavery

Who believed that slavery was morally and socially wrong?

Abraham Lincoln

What do we call a slave state that stayed in the Union?

Border States

What do we call a state that did not have slavery?

Free States

What do we call authority carried out by the people at large?

Popular Sovereignty

What caused the Civil War?

The attack on Ft. Sumter

What is another name for the United States?

Union

What do we call the withdrawal when a part of a country leaves or breaks off from the

rest?

Secession

This state was the very first state to secede (or separate) from the UNION. (The North)

SOUTH CAROLINA

What do we call a state in which slavery is allowed ?

Slave States

This is when something is given up by both sides in order to reach an agreement to solve the conflict.

Compromise

This person wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which

described the suffering of slaves.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

This person ran for the Senate of Illinois as a Republican AGAINST Abraham Lincoln

AGAINST

Stephen Douglas

He was the president of the Confederate States ( South) of America

Jefferson Davis

He was a slave from Missouri that asked the Supreme Court for his freedom.

Dred Scott

This person led slaves to freedom by the Underground Railroad

Harriet Tubman

This person was born into slavery and later spoke in favor of abolition and women’s rights. Remember that abolition

means to end slavery!!

Sojourner Truth

This person was a well known abolitionist that escaped from slavery. A writer that often spoke to white audiences about

slavery.

Frederick Douglass

This person printed anti-slavery newspapers called the Liberator

William Lloyd Garrison

This person led a rebellion against slave owners that resulted in the killing of 59 people. As a result of this rebellion,

southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free blacks.

Nat Turner

What were the differences between the North and the South

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

NORTH (UNION) SOUTH (CONFEDERATE) ABOLISHED SLAVERY ALLOWED SLAVERY INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY

BELIEVED IN A STRONG FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

BELIEVED IN STATES RIGHTS

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

The North abolish slavery and the South allowed slavery

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE

SOUTH

The North had a industrial economy and the South had a agricultural (farming) economy

DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH

The North believed in a strong federal government and the South believed in states rights.

The ______Compromise gave popular sovereignty to just SOME of the territories.

HINT: Remember popular soverignty is when the people of a state or territory get to make decisions for themselves and the FEDERAL government does not.

The Missouri Compromise

The Compromise of 1850 accepted what state as a slave state ? What state as a free state? An invisible line was

created. Any territories SOUTH of that line would allow slavery.

Missouri- slave state Maine- Free State

The Confederate states of America was created when what happened?

NORTH (UNION) SOUTH (CONFEDERATE)

Several states seceded (separated) from the Union (The North) They began a separate union or country.

The government tried to keep the states at peace by allowing

The same number of FREE states and SLAVE states into the union. Before these areas were states they were called

territories.