People
What is the name of Harriet Beecher's Stowe's famous anti-slavery novel?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Which event showed violence in the Congress when a congressman was beaten with a cane?
Brooks-Sumner Affair
How did
Lincoln was a Republican and Douglas was a Democrat.
Explain Manifest Destiny
God-given right to expand US territory regardless of who is already there.
What event officially started the Civil War?
The attack on Fort Sumter in Charleston, South Carolina.
What is the Massachusetts 54th known for?
The Massachusetts 54th is famous for being the first all African-American regiment in the United States.
How did the South react when Lincoln was elected as President in 1860?
When Lincoln was elected in 1860, 11 southern states seceded and formed the Confederate States of America.
What political office did Lincoln and Douglas run against each other for in 1858?
Senator for Illinois
What line of work did most freedmen and poor whites do after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
Bloodiest day in US History
Battle of Antietam
What was John Brown's goal when he raided the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
When he raided the arsenal at Harper's Ferry, John Brown's goal was to take all the guns, give them to local slaves, and start a rebellion.
What were the 2 parts of the Compromise of 1850 or both north and south?
The Compromise of 1850 gave the North free California and South got a stronger fugitive slave law.
What main political party was against the expansion of slavery?
Republican Party
what is a border state?
A state that stayed in the Union but still had slavery.
What were black codes?
State laws designed to deny freedmen basic rights without permission of the white majority.
What was the court's decision in the Dred Scott case?
Dred Scott was a slave who sued his master for his freedom and lost. The Supreme Court ruled that since Scott was a slave, he had no rights as an American citizen, and could not sue anyone.
What were the 3 goals of the Anaconda Plan?
1) blockade southern coasts
2) control Mississippi River
3) capture Richmond, Va....the capital of the confederacy
How did Lincoln win the presidency in 1860?
The Democrat party was divided between North and South.
and The free states all voted for Lincoln.
What event ended Reconstruction?
Election of Hayes and Compromise of 1877
Explain the 2 parts of the 14th Amendment.
Blacks, and all people born in the US, were given citizenship status
States had to enforce and protect the rights of its citizens and give equal protection.
Why did Douglas lose support from the South due to the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
He gave the Freeport Doctrine which explained how to prevent slavery from getting in the territories.
Which battle gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union?
Vicksburg
What was one main effect of the Emancipation Proclamation since it didn't really free any slaves?
Europe could no longer think about helping the South since they were anti-slavery.
Explain the Kansas-Nebraska Act and 2 effects of it.
Law in 1854 that would allow popular sovereignty to determine whether slavery would exist in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
Outraged the North since the Missouri Compromise had banned it there.
Whig Party divided and later destroyed
Lincoln comes back into politics
Led to Bleeding Kansas
What is one main reason the South lost the Civil War?
Europe did not recognize them.
The North continued the fight and Lincoln was re-elected in 1864.
The North had superior numbers and industry.