Causes
Course
Reconstruction
Reconstruction II
Vocabulary
100

This was the first state to secede the Union in 1861.

What is South Carolina?

100

This is the name of the Union's plan to blockade the Southern ports and take control of the Mississippi River.

What is the Anaconda Plan?

100

The Radical Republicans had a more ____________ view of Reconstruction.

What is harsh?

100

This amendment guaranteed equal protection under the law for ALL races.

What is the 14th Amendment?

100

This man was an abolitionist and began "The Liberator".

Who is William Lloyd Garrison?

200

This was the tipping point for the South and caused the states to secede and leave the Union.

What is the Election of 1860?

200

This novel was responsible for sparking an abolitionist movement up north.  

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

200

The Presidents' (Lincoln and Johnson) had a more ______________ view of Reconstruction.

What is lenient?

200

Radical Republicans took power away from this system local government. 

What are the southern state governments?

200

This term means compulsory service in the military. People had no choice to serve when they were drafted.  

What is conscription?

300

These are the two significances of the Dred Scott case. 

What are "slaves were declared property" and "it repealed the Missouri Compromise"?

300

This is a political group out west that was against slavery due to their own labor concerns. 

What are the Free- Soilers?

300

The president who signed Black Codes into law was this man.

Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
True or False: The 15th Amendment legally gave ALL citizens the right to vote, regardless of their race. 

What is false?

300
This term means to withdraw from or to leave. 

What is secede?

400

True or False: The Kansas- Nebraska Act stopped slavery from spreading up into the North. 

What is false?

400

This freed the slaves only in the rebelling states. 

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?

400

A southerner who supported Reconstruction was referred to as this.  

What is a scalawag?
400

This organization was created by Congress to assist former slaves in adjusting to a post- slavery life.

What is the Freedman's Bureau?

400
This abolitionist had escaped from slavery and gave the speech, "What to the slave is the 4th of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500

This piece of the Compromise of 1850 exclusively pleased the SOUTH.

What is the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Act?

500

These were the strengths of the Confederate Army (3 of them).

What are strong leadership, devotion to the cause, and strong military history?

500

This kept former slaves in a state of economic dependence on their landlords. 

What is sharecropping?

500

Plessy vs. Ferguson allowed segregation to occur in the USA on the grounds of this doctrine.

What is "separate but equal"?

500

This means loyalty to ones section or region rather than the country as a whole.

What is sectionalism?

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