5th Grade Civil War
Study Guide
Mrs. Thornburg’s Version
This person led a raid on
Harpers Ferry
John Brown
Who is a person that
runs away from the law?
Fugitive
This is a war between opposing
groups of the same country
Civil War
The 11 Southern States that separated from
the United States in 1860
Confederacy
What is a tariff?
Tariff is a tax charged by a
government on imported goods.
What is discrimination?
Discrimination is a treatment of people
based on a class or category rather
than individual merit.
This was a secret system that helped
runaway slaves escape to Canada or the
free states.
Underground Railroad
These people printed antislavery
newspapers and spoke against slavery to
try and end slavery.
Abolitionists
These people wanted more enslaved
people to produce cotton, and that was
why it was so important to Southerners.
Southern Farmers
In this case the Supreme Court ruled
that slaves were considered property,
and therefore had no rights.
Dred Scott
This law stated that escaped slaves
found in the North were required to be
returned to their owners in the South.
Fugitive Slave Law
What was the leading cause of conflict
between the North and the South?
Each side disagreed
about slavery
Who believed that slavery was morally
and socially wrong?
Abraham Lincoln
What do we call a slave state that stayed in
the Union?
Border States
What do we call a state that did not have
slavery?
Free States
What do we call authority carried out by the
people at large?
Popular Sovereignty
What caused the Civil War?
The attack on Ft. Sumter
What is another name for the United States?
Union
What do we call the withdrawal when a part
of a country leaves or breaks off from the
rest?
Secession
This state was the very first state to secede (or
separate) from the UNION. (The North)
SOUTH CAROLINA
What do we call a state in which slavery is
allowed ?
Slave States
This is when something is given up by both sides in
order to reach an agreement to solve the conflict.
Compromise
This person wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin, which
described the suffering of slaves.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
This person ran for the Senate of Illinois as a
Republican AGAINST Abraham Lincoln
AGAINST
Stephen Douglas
He was the president of the
Confederate States ( South) of America
Jefferson Davis
He was a slave from Missouri that asked the
Supreme Court for his freedom.
Dred Scott
This person led slaves to freedom
by the Underground Railroad
Harriet Tubman
This person was born into slavery and later spoke in favor of
abolition and women’s rights. Remember that abolition
means to end slavery!!
Sojourner Truth
This person was a well known abolitionist that escaped from
slavery. A writer that often spoke to white audiences about
slavery.
Frederick Douglass
This person printed anti-slavery
newspapers called the Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
This person led a rebellion against slave owners that resulted
in the killing of 59 people. As a result of this rebellion,
southern states passed laws to control both enslaved and free
blacks.
Nat Turner
What were the differences
between the North and the South
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH
NORTH (UNION)
ABOLISHED SLAVERY
INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY
SOUTH (CONFEDERATE)
ALLOWED SLAVERY
AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY
BELIEVED IN A STRONG
FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
BELIEVED IN STATES RIGHTS
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE
NORTH AND THE SOUTH
The North abolish slavery and the
South allowed slavery
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN
THE NORTH AND THE
SOUTH
The North had a industrial economy and the South had a
agricultural (farming) economy
DIFFERENCES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND
THE SOUTH
The North believed in a strong federal government and the
South believed in states rights.
The ______Compromise gave popular sovereignty to
just SOME of the territories.
HINT: Remember popular soverignty is when the people of a
state or territory get to make decisions for themselves and the
FEDERAL government does not.
The Missouri Compromise
The Compromise of 1850 accepted what state as a slave state
? What state as a free state? An invisible line was created.
Any territories SOUTH of that line would allow slavery.
Missouri- slave state
Maine- Free State
The Confederate states of America was created when what
happened?
NORTH (UNION)
SOUTH (CONFEDERATE)
Several states seceded (separated) from the Union (The
North) They began a separate union or country.
The government tried to keep the
states at peace by allowing
The same number of FREE states and SLAVE states into the
union. Before these areas were states they were called
territories.