Antebellum America
True or false: The types and levels of work required on plantations and farms varied across the South.
What is true about slave labor in the South?
True or false: Only a few of the thirteen original colonies permitted slavery at some point.
What is false about slavery in the original colonies?
This general chose to fight for the Confederacy because he could not fight against his home state of Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
True or false: The Emancipation Proclamation it immediately freed all enslaved people in the loyal border states.
What is false about the Emancipation Proclamation?
The Fourteenth Amendment declared Confederate debts to be this.
What is null and void?
This invention by Eli Whitney dramatically increased cotton production and, subsequently, the demand for slave labor.
What is the cotton gin?
This Midwestern city is where the 1860 Republican Convention nominated Abraham Lincoln.
What is Chicago?
This true statement describes the actions of the Union general William Tecumseh Sherman in late 1864.
Is that The Union general William Tecumseh Sherman led the capture of Atlanta and the subsequent 'March Across Georgia'?
The Democratic nominee who ran against Abraham Lincoln in the 1864 presidential election.
Who is George B. McClellan?
The agency formed by Congress after the Civil War specifically to help former slaves and poor whites in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
True or false: Most Irish immigrants who came to America in the mid-1800s wanted to continue working in agriculture.
What is false about Irish immigration?
True or False: This loyal state seceded from the Union immediately after the election of 1860.
What is false about Ohio's reaction to the 1860 election?
True or false: Richmond, Virginia, served as the only seat of government for the Confederacy throughout the entire war.
What is false about the Confederate capital?
The name given to northerners, mostly Peace Democrats, who were sympathetic to the Southern cause.
What are Copperheads?
This Reconstruction Act divided the former Confederate states (excluding Tennessee) into this number of military districts.
What are five military districts?
This was the Cabinet position held by Henry Clay when he served under President John Quincy Adams.
What is Secretary of State?
In his First Inaugural Address, Lincoln made this true claim about the status of secession and federal interference with slavery.
Is that Lincoln said that he did not intend to do anything about slavery where it existed, and he said he believed that secession was wrong?
The Battle of Stones River (Murfreesboro) is considered this type of victory for the Union because Confederate forces ultimately withdrew from the field.
What is a strategic victory?
The Confederacy primarily financed the war by selling government bonds and printing large quantities of paper currency, which caused severe inflation.
What caused severe inflation in the Confederacy?
These state laws, passed in the South after the Civil War, were designed to severely restrict the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
True or false: It took many years and many different events for the American abolition movement to become mainstream.
What is true about the rise of abolitionism?
This event led to the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter.
What is an attempt to resupply the fort?
True or False: The Battle of Antietam is considered a Confederate victory because it resulted in a formal military alliance with Great Britain.
What is false about the Battle of Antietam?
On April 14, 1865, the assassination plot, of which Lincoln was the successful target, also planned to target the Vice President and this Cabinet member.
Who is Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton?
This Constitutional Amendment defined national citizenship and guaranteed the legal rights of citizens.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?