Match the feature with its description

1. Lincoln became president

2. Southern states secede from the Union.

3. Lincoln's inauguration

4. Lincoln expected to maintain control of federal forts in southern states

5. Union tries to resupply Fort Sumter in South Carolina

6. Confederate Major P.G.T. Beauregard ordered to stop supplies from going to the federal fort.

7.  . . . 

Which slave states stayed in the Union?

A Supreme Court case in which an elderly black man born into slavery traveled to and lived with his master in the free state of Wisconsin. The black man argued that because he had lived in a free state he should have been declared free.

Chief Justice Taney made a judgment that the man was the property of his owner and that all black people had no rights that white men needed to respect.

White abolitionist who went to Kansas and killed 5 pro slavery people. He thought that violence was the only answer to ending slavery. When he and his sons and a group of men took over a federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (now West Virginia), in hopes that they would start a slave revolt, the Federal army stormed the building, killing two sons and injuring the abolitionist who later was tried and hanged.

Slaves were treated like animals or inferior children, even by masters who cared for them as part of their own family.

Slaves preferred the gang system in which they worked sun up to sun down as a group under an overseer.

Three key white abolitionist authors: