Road to Civil War
This belief justified U.S. expansion and intensified sectional conflict.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This 1863 proclamation declared slaves free in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This agency helped freed slaves with education and resources after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This abolitionist wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This political party formed in the 1850s to oppose the spread of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
This compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This battle marked a turning point in the war in favor of the Union.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These laws in the South restricted the rights of freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?
This 1862 law gave free land to settlers in the West.
What is the Homestead Act?
This act allowed settlers to decide slavery through popular sovereignty, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union general used “total war” tactics in his March to the Sea.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This network helped enslaved people escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This 1862 law funded the construction of a transcontinental railroad.
What is the Pacific Railway Act?
This violent conflict in the 1850s over slavery in Kansas earned this nickname.
What is "Bleeding Kansas" ?
This Union strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment aimed to protect voting rights for Black men.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This term describes farmers who worked land for a share of the crops after the war.
What is sharecropping?
This Civil War law allowed the government to draft soldiers.
What is the Conscription Act?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This agreement ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Supreme Court decision upheld segregation under “separate but equal.” (stretch into Period 6 connection)
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
This Reconstruction plan was created by Radical Republicans to punish the South and protect freedmen.
What is Radical Reconstruction?