vice president of the Confederate States of America

chief justice of the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision

president of the Confederate States of America

Democrat elected president in 1856, would not act to prevent secession

author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin

runaway slave who started an abolitionist newspaper

runaway slave who helped others escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad

Republican president elected in 1860

Illinois senator who debated Lincoln and proposed the Kansas-Nebraska Act

former slave whose case went to the Supreme Court

abolitionist leader of the raid on Harpers Ferry, Virginia

The word _________ means “before the war.”

The person the master hired to distribute the work among the slaves and ensure they did as expected was the __________.

In the ________system, slaves worked in large groups for a set amount of time each day.

In the _______ system, slaves worked on a specific job until it was complete and then could use the remainder of the day working for themselves.

Two northern abolitionist newspaper publishers who called for an immediate end to slavery were __________ and ___________.

__________ were songs slaves wrote about their condition.

A famous book written about the plight of slave families and runaways was ___________.

The __________ Act proposed that popular sovereignty determine the status of slavery in two new western territories.

The senator from Massachusetts who verbally attacked his pro-slavery colleagues and was beaten with a cane in the Senate chamber was _________.

The South Carolina Congressman who beat a senator from Massachusetts with a cane was __________.

Some Southern states threatened ______ , or the act of leaving the Union, if Republicans won the election of 1860.

When the Democratic Party split in 1860, Southern Democrats nominated ________ as their candidate

The Constitutional Union Party nominated ______as their candidate in 1860

The states that seceded met in Montgomery, Alabama, in February 1861 and formed the _________ States of America.

Fort ___________ in Charleston Harbor was the place where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.

Fifty counties of a state that had chosen to secede formed their own government and became the state of __________________.

Each of the following is true about the economies of the North and South except that _____

Conscience Whigs, Northern Democrats, and the Free Soil Party joined together to form the _____ Party in 1854

Each of the following is true about Lincoln’s view of slavery in 1860 except that _____

The Confederates fired on Fort Sumter because _____.