A Southerner who supported the Radical Republicans and their Reconstruction plans.
What is a scalawag?
100
The Supreme Court case that had the biggest effect on slavery. It said that a slave could not sue because he/she was property and not a citizen.
What is Dred Scott Case?
100
Battle that took place on Sept. 17, 1862, stopped the Confederate offensive and their attempt to invade the North. Bloodiest day of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
100
Largest Civil War battle fought in Georgia.
What is Chickamauga?
100
The first woman to serve in the US Congress. She supported suffrage for women and prison reform.
Who is Rebecca Latimer Felton?
200
A farmer who brought his own tools and animals, but farmed someone else's land for a portion of the profit.
What is a tenant farmer?
200
The issue that divided the North and the South, especially when thinking about the westward expansion and new territories.
What is slavery?
200
The states thought they could secede anytime they wanted because they believed in this...
What is State's Rights?
200
Amendment that gave voting rights to all men regardless of color
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
The Populist who supported farmers
What is Tom Watson?
300
A person who farmed someone else's land and didn't bring anything with them but their physical labor.
What is a sharecropper?
300
In this battle, Sherman wanted to take this city because he could control all the railways that ran through it. It was the beginning of his "March to the Sea".
What is Atlanta Campaign?
300
The battle that stopped Robert E. Lee's invasion of the North for the last time.
What is Gettysburg?
300
Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves.
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
300
A Jewish man who was accused of killing a young girl. An angry mob lynched him when the governor changed his sentence to life in prison instead of the death sentence.
Who is Leo Frank?
400
When a state ignores a federal law. For example, the tariffs on imported goods.
What is nullification?
400
This caused South Carolina secede from the Union
What is Lincoln's election?
400
This caused most of the Civil War deaths
What is disease and infection?
400
The Freedmen's Bureau is associated with this era
What is Reconstruction?
400
False accusations that black men were attacking white women caused this.
What is the 1906 Atlanta Riot?
500
The belief that one area's belief is better than another. For example, the North didn't agree with slavery, and the south did.
What is sectionalism?
500
This Compromise allowed Maine in as a free state and Missouri in as a slave state. It kept the balance of power between slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The Emancipation Proclamation was issued after this battle
What is Antietam?
500
His Reconstruction plan was based on forgiveness and a quick, peaceful reunion with the South.
Who is President Lincoln?
500
This caused the rebirth of the KKK in Georgia in 1915.