Campman Antebellum Era

Which was the strategy of the South during the Civil War?

This term means the freeing of a slave by his or her owner

He won the election of 1860

Which issue became the most significant in the Civil War?

Popular Sovereignty means

This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens of the U.S.

The president of the Confederate States of America was

This state was the last to secede from the Union

This is a strong feeling of patriotism to one's country and the desire to unify the people.

This means "to leave" in political terms.

This state was the first to secede from the Union

This book exposed the evils of Southern slavery

This act left the decision of slavery to popular sovereignty

What was the name given to the Union strategy?

These states allowed slavery but did not secede from the Union

This was NOT a cause of the Civil War

This compromise allowed Maine to enter the Union as a free state

The first shots of the war were fired here

How many states seceded from the Union?

What is a way that African Americans participated in the Civil War?

What were Southern states waiting for (before they decided to secede)?

What is the South's "peculiar institution?"

This compromise reinstated the Fugitive Slave Act

This compromise was used to increase the # of representatives southern states had in Congress

What famous abolitionist attacked the federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia in 1859?