social studies lesson 1 and 2 part 2

1.Abraham Lincoln was president when the Civil War started 

2.Harriet Tubman led more than 300 slaves through the Underground Railroad

3.Lucretia Mott a quaker minister and abolitionist who spoke at the American Anti Slavery Society

4. Sam HoustonTexas governor who was a strong supporter of the Federal Government 

5. Frederick Douglas a former slave, he was a fiery orator against slavery 

6. Dred Scotthe did not obtain his freedom because he was considered a slave and property

7. Millard Fillmore was President who signed the Missouri Compromise of 1859 into law

8. Nat Turner led a slave rebellion against Virginia plantation owners 

9. Franklin Piercewas president who signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 into law

10. John Brown an abolitionist who who conducted a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry

11. James Buchanan President who believed slavery was protected by the Constitution 

 12.Stephen Douglas had a series of debates with Lincoln and was a presidential nominee

13. Robert E. Lee put down the rebellion that took place at Harper’s Ferry 

14. Roger Taney slaveholding Chief Justice who wrote the majority opinion in the Dred Scott case

15. Jefferson Davis elected the President of the Confederate States of America  

Lessons 1 and 2 

1. The Civil War was fought mainly to save the Union

2. The first state to secede from the Union was South Carolina 

3. The Corwin amendment was a compromise amendment 

4. The drafting of men into the Army was known as conscription

5. The Wilmot Proviso prohibited slavery in new western land

6. Cotton and tobacco were the most important cash crops in the Southern economy

7. Fort Sumter was the location where the Civil War started 

8. Harriet Beecher Stowe was the author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin which describes the brutal slave conditions 

9. Abolitionists were people who opposed slavery

10. The Liberator was founded by William Lloyd Garrison.  It was a newspaper devoted to the elimination of slavery.The sequence of events in which these events happened is: 

    1. Bleeding Kansas

    2. Dred Scott ruling

    3. John Brown’s Raid

    4. South Carolina secedes 

11.  Confederate States include: South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia 

12. Union States included: Illinois, New York, Pennsylvania

13. The Emancipation Proclamation made slavery one of the purposes of the Civil War 

14. Missouri admitted to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state was the main result of the Missouri Compromise of 1820 

15. The main ruling of the Dred Scott case was that it upheld the constitutionality of slavery.

16. The Antebellum Period is what the era between the War of 1812 and the American Civil War was called 

17. The campaign to squeeze the economic life out of the Confederacy was called the Anaconda Plan