The Civil War

In terms of The Civil War, an abolitionist was

• Someone who takes care of trees

• A slave owner

• Someone who wanted to get rid of slavery

• A northern soldier

The Underground Railroad was

• The first subway system

• A train line that ended use of The Oregon Trail

• A system of people who helped slaves escapte to freedom

• A secret train built from the South to Canada

If a runaway slave was caught they were

• Escorted to safety in Canada

• Congrtulated on escaping

• Returned to their owner and punished

• Executed

The most famous "conductor" on the Underground Railroad was

• Abraham Lincoln

• Harriet Tubman

• Rosa Parks

• Martin Luther King Jr.

The North was known as

• Free States

• Slave States

The Missouri Compromise allowed _______ as a slave state and _______ as a free state

• Missouri, Maine

• Florida, California

• Oregon, Texas

• California, Missouri

Fugitive means

• A person who has escaped from a place or is in hiding to avoid arrest or persecution.
• A person who is well-known in the community
• A person who is a law-abiding citizen
• A person who is always present

The "Fugitive Slave Law" stated that

• Once in a free state, a person was free

• All citizens of the US must help capture and return escaped slaves

• Escaped slaves could be chased into Canada and Mexico

• People from the south could not cross the border to the north

By 1860, The United States was deeply divided between

• The East and West

• The North and South

• Whites and African Americans

• Britain and Spain

The issue of _________ led to many compromises in Congress.

• Slavery

• Expansion

• Industrialization

• Cotton vs Tobacco