Vocabulary
This is when someone is treated unequally because of characteristics like race, age, nationality, or religion. These behaviors can include insults, denial of rights, hate crimes, or genocides.
What is discrimination?
These are words that could describe the living conditions of slave homes. These living conditions contributed to slave deaths by causing frequent illness. (3 words)
What is 'small, dirty shacks'.
The election of this man in 1860 was the straw that broke the camel's back for South Carolina. He had gained a reputation as a confident debater after challenging Stephen Douglas to a series of debates in 1858. He had a firm stance that slavery shouldn't expand.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle showed the people of the Union that the war would not be quick or bloodless. It took place on July 21, 1861, just 25 miles away from D.C. The battle saw the Southern army hold strong, especially Stonewall Jackson, eventually giving them the win.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
This amendment, ratified in December 1865, officially outlawed slavery throughout the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This is a term that refers to laws or rules that forbid people from discussing or debating particular topics. The House used a series of these in the 1830s to postpone discussions of slavery.
What is a gag rule?
These are the three main ways enslaved African Americans showed their culture while in captivity.
What is religion, music, and oral stories?
This Supreme Court case was brought after an enslaved man sued his owner for taking him across state lines to free states without freeing him. The court ruled in favor of the owner, stating that slaves are property, that restricting what slave owners can do with their slaves is unconstitutional, and that African Americans are not citizens, free or enslaved.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This battle resulted in a very famous speech given by Abraham Lincoln. Fought in June 1863, this battle saw Robert E. Lee (C) on the lower ground and General George Meade (U) on the high ground. Over three days, the Union took control of the area. The battle ended with 51,000 casualties including 8,000 deaths. Lee's final invasion attempt of the North failed.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
These two numbers represent the economic struggles the South faced as a result of the war. The first number is the result of printing too much money, leading to major inflation rates. The second number represents the percentage total wealth fell in the South during the time of the war. (2 answers)
What is 9,000% and 40%?
This is a feeling of extreme loyalty to one's section or region of a country. This feeling grew in the U.S. throughout the 1830s into North and South identities.
What is sectionalism?
This is the tradition of slave marriages that formed without the permission of their overseer. This tradition had the couple hold hands and jump over a common household object to symbolize their union.
What is 'jumping the broom'?
This law, designed to resolve whether or not Missouri would be a free or slave state, started because the U.S. needed the same number of free and slave states to avoid conflict. This law was proposed by Henry Clay in 1820 and admitted two states, Maine (free) and Missouri (slave).
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This famous Confederate general began a string of surrenders to the Union. After the Union had cut off the South's final supply line, the South Side Railroad, his troops began to starve. He made the decision to surrender at the Appomattox Court House on April 9, 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
These two numbers prove why the Civil War was the bloodiest war in American history. The first number represents how many Americans died in the war, and the second number represents what percent of the population of the U.S. this was in 1865.
What is 600,000-750,000 and 2%?
This is the Latin name of a legal term that means "you have the body." This legal term refers to an order for a person who has been imprisoned to be released.
What is habeas corpus?
This man led a slave revolt in Virginia in 1831. The revolt killed 60 people including their owner and his family. This revolt was used by Southern states to further justify that slavery was the only way to 'control' African Americans.
Who is Nat Turner?
This law was passed alongside the Compromise of 1850. This law made it so that anyone who knew of or helped a runaway slave and didn't tell would go to prison.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This battle allowed Lincoln to pass the Emancipation Proclamation. Fought in September 1862 in Maryland, the battle lasted only one day but was the bloodiest day in American military history. It ended with 22,000 casualties and a Southern retreat. The Union chose not to pursue them farther, resulting in Lincoln removing General McClellan from service.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
These are the two departments created by the government following the war. The first department delt with government payments to wounded soldiers and their families, and the second department ensured the nation and army's food supplies, as well as restored productivity to Southern farmers. (2 answers)
What is the Bureau of Pensions and the Department of Agriculture?
This is a group of Southern extremists who advocated for the South to secede from the Union to protect their rights and the institution of slavery.
Who were the Fire-Eaters?
These are the most consistent slave codes found in the South. (4 answers)
What is 'slaves could not read or write, meet in groups without a white person present, bear arms, or testify against white people in court'?
This law, proposed by Stephen Douglas, was made using the ideas of Henry Clay. He made it so the people in New Mexico and Utah could vote on whether they would enter as a free or slave state (popular sovereignty) so the people of California could enter as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This event was not a battle but a siege. Over a month, General William T. Sherman (U) led troops from Atlanta, GA to Savannah, GA, destroying everything including railroads, civilian homes, and farms. When he finally captured Savannah, he made the decision to preserve it as a Christmas present to Abraham Lincoln.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
These groups, formed by Northern women, worked to provide aid to the troops during the war. They would do things like can and bake food for them, sew uniforms, knit socks, or raise money to support the war effort.
What are ladies aid leagues?
These are the people responsible for ensuring enslaved people did the work expected of them. These people regularly used violent punishments such as whipping or separation of families to get slaves to work or prevent uprising.
Who is an overseer?
These are the three ways African Americans could be freed in the early 1800s.
What is 'buy their freedom, be freed by their owners, or be born to freed African Americans'?
This law, made by Stephen Douglas in 1854, created two new territories in the land west of Iowa. This law allowed for the residents of these territories vote if they would be a slave or free territory. This led to several violent disputes including the Bleeding Kansas riot which led to the deaths of 200 people.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln at the Ford's Theatre in D.C. He was an actor at the theatre, so when he leapt from the president's balcony after shooting him, people thought it was part of the show. Lincoln officially died days after his shooting on April 15, 1865.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
These are the three purposes of total war as a battle tactic.
What is 'disable the Confederate war effort, demoralize the South, and punish the Confederates for disloyalty'?