Pre-Civil War America
The people who made up the "cottonocracy."
Who were the wealthy, influential planters who owned many enslaved people and became rich from cotton?
These two states were entered into the Union as part of the Missouri Compromise.
What are Missouri and Maine?
List 3 of the States that seceded from the Union in 1861.
What are Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas?
The name given to the physical, political, and social rebuilding of the South.
What was Reconstruction?
The Fifteenth Amendment guarantees this right.
What is the right to vote regardless of race, color, or previous conditions of servitude?
The slow, long process that completely changed the way goods were produced and where many people worked and lived.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
The Missouri Compromise was _______ .
The creation of an imaginary line at latitude 36, 30' N. New states would be admitted to the Union as Slave States below the line and Free States above the line.
List two advantages that the North had during the Civil War.
What were: bigger population, food supplies, factories, and a navy. (there are more answers.)
This agency was made to help former slaves and poor white people in the South.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
These laws were passed by Southern legislature to limit the rights of freed African Americans.
What were Black codes?
This group of people made up many of the factory workers in the North during the 1840s.
Who were immigrants?
The court case that ruled that people of African descent were not American citizens further divided the nation even more during the Pre-Civil War era.
What was Dred Scott v. Sandford?
List two advantages that the South had during the Civil War.
What were: a defensive war, strong belief in their cause, better knowledge of the area, better generals (there are more).
The Thirteenth Amendment did this.
What is ban slavery throughout the nation?
Name two unfair policies that limited African-Americans' right to vote in the South.
What were poll taxes and literacy tests?
This machine greatly increased the production of cotton in the South.
What was the Cotton Gin?
Violence broke out over the question of slavery in this Western Territory as it was becoming a state.
What is Kansas?
During this battle of 1862, neither the North or South won, but President Lincoln used the opportunity to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the Battle of Antietam?
This group of individuals opposed equality and many of the Reconstruction policies through violence, fear, threats, and even murder.
Who were the KKK?
This civil rights activists gave speeches throughout the Civil War and convinced many white people to support Abolitionist ideas.
Who was Frederick Douglas?
Name three things connected to the abolitionists and their movement.
What are: Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Underground Railroad, The Liberator, Civil Disobedience, Harriot Tubman, Frederick Douglass. (There are more answers.)
South Carolina was the first state to secede because _____ .
What was Abraham Lincoln winning the presidential election?
General ______ surrendered to General ______ at _______ on April 9th, 1865.
General Lee, General Grant, Appomattox Court House
This style of farming and forced poverty was common amongst recently freed African-Americans and poor Southern whites.
What is sharecropping?
Although not a real train, many freedom seeking slaves used this to reach freedom in the North.
What was the Underground Railroad?