The US Civil War

What did the 13th Amendment do?

• Abolished slavery in the Confederacy

• Abolished slavery in the United States

• Abolished slavery in the whole world

• Abolished slavey in the North only

A person who was against slavery was known as __.

• A confederate

• An abolitionist

• A loyalist

• A patriot

Who was Dred Scott?

• Dred Scott was a British soldier who died at the Battle of Bunker Hill.

• Dred Scott was a confederate who convinced southern states to secede from the Union.

• Dred Scott was a slave, who fought for his freedom in the Supreme Court, but was denied.

• Dred Scott was a patriot who spoke about fighting for independence from Great Britain.

Who was John Brown?

• A slave owner who was in favor of seceding from the Union to preserve slavery in the South.

• A Confederate soldier who died at the Battle of Gettysburg.

• A Union soldier who fought in the Battle of Gettysburg.

• An abolitionist who led a raid for weapons, but was captured and sentenced to death for treason.

The Kansas-Nebraska Act made it possible for...

• states to vote to be free states or slave states

• the Southern states abolish slavery

• slavery to be outlawed in any new states formed in the West

• Dred Scott to be freed

Why was the election of 1860 important?

• Lincoln lost the election to Stephen Douglas who was in favor of slavery.

• Lincoln, who was against slavery, won the election by electoral votes.

• Lincoln won the election and successfully united the country against slavery.

• Douglas won the election and fought to end slavery.

___ is known for helping to convince Lincoln to free the slaves in the Confederacy.

• William Loyd Garrison

• Harriet Tubman

• Frederick Douglass

• Robert E. Lee

Why were the Southerners afraid of Abraham Lincoln becoming president?

• The Southerners believed that Lincoln would give the states more rights 

• The Southerners believed that Lincoln would make the North Secede from the South 

• The Southerners believed that Lincoln would want to keep slavery in the US

• The Southerners believed that the US government would abolish slavery 

Which of these two groups believed Slavery was important to their economy and way of life?

• The Union

• The Confederacy

Many of the southern states _________ and formed the Confederate State of America. 

• seceded

• annexed

• ejected

• ran away