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People who resisted slavery?
Abolitionists
Regional loyalty?
Sectionalism
To stop ships from entering or leaving ports?
Blockade
To withdraw or leave the union?
Secede
A system if secret escape routes leading to freed lands?
Underground railroad
To free?
Emancipate
Sets of laws which were designed to control enslaved people?
Slave codes
Taxes (especially on imported goods)?
Tariff
Idea that states, not the federal government, should have the final say in their affairs?
States rights
A short speech?
Address
A person who is killed or wounded in war?
Casualty
To murder (especially a famous person)?
Assassinate
Supreme Court justice who ruled that enslaved people did not have the rights as American citizens?
Roger B. Taney
Seized a weapons storehouse, hoping to arm enslaved people?
John Brown
Published an abolitionist newspaper called the “Liberator” and founded the Anti-Slavery Society?
William Lloyd Garrison
Led enslaved people to freedom as a conductor on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
Escaped from slavery; became an abolitionist, speaker, and writer?
Fredrick Douglass
Attempted to earn his freedom from slavery by taking his case to the United States Supreme Court?
Dred Scott
Spy for the Confederacy?
Belle Boyd
16th President of the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
Commanding general for the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Nurse for the Union Army – “Angel of the Battlefield”?
Clara Barton
Commanding general for the Union Army?
Ulysses S. Grant
Confederate general accidentally shot by his own troops?
Thomas “Stone Wall” Jackson
Led his Union troops on 300 mile march to the Sea?
William T. Sherman
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TheCivilWarPG50-97
Description
Study Guide for The Nation Divides and The Civil War (p.50-97)
Updated
2012-10-14T21:29:03Z
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