Civil War Unit - 8th Grade

__________________ meant that people in a territory or state would vote directly on issues.

The practice of enslaving humans to work without pay, treating them like animals and considered property

The Emancipation Proclamation

Runaway slaves used the _______ _________ to escape.

Considered a major turning point of the war

A Civil War is a war between opposing groups of citizens of the same

The Dred Scott decision angered people who were

Southern states threatened to _________ or withdraw from the Union.

Who was the Confederate General who surrendered at Appomattox Courthouse?

Border states were ____________ states that did not seceded

The military term for persons killed, wounded, or missing is action is _____________

The election of 1860 led to the breakup of the

The majority of the battles took place in the

The territory acquired after the Mexican American war caused tension over

All were causes of the Civil War except

Northerners who moved to the South to participate in southern government were called

The Battle of Bull Run proved all of the following, EXCEPT

Effects of the Civil War were all except

The ___________ had more population, factories, and railroads

Abraham Lincoln was elected President for two terms

The first State to secede was

A person who escaped slavery and would later start an abolitionist newspaper called The North Star