Slavery Compromises
Antebellum Period
Emancipation Proclamation
Reconstruction
Compromise of 1877
100

This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.

Missouri Compromise

100

This economic system relied heavily on slave labor in the South.

Agriculture

100

This document declared all slaves in Confederate-held territory to be free.

Emancipation Proclamation

100

This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.

13th

100

This event marked the end of Reconstruction.

The Compromise of 1877

200

This compromise allowed slave owners to request the return of any runaway. 

Compromise of 1850

200

This movement aimed to end slavery in the United States.

Abolitionist Movement

200

The Emancipation Proclamation went into effect on this date.

January 1, 1863

200

This act of Congress divided the South into military districts for enforcement of Reconstruction

Military Reconstruction Act

200

The Compromise of 1877 resulted in this political position for Rutherford B. Hayes.

President

300

This compromise allowed the counting of slaves for taxation and representation purposes. 

3/5 Compromise

300

This event in 1857 ruled that African Americans could not be citizens.

Dred Scott case

300

The proclamation did not apply to these states that remained loyal to the Union.

Maryland, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky

300

This term describes laws passed in Southern states to restrict the freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.

Black Codes

300

The withdrawal of federal troops from the South allowed this to happen in Southern states.

Democrats gained control

400

This act of 1854 created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska and allowed settlers to determine if they would allow slavery.

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

This publication by Harriet Beecher Stowe helped to galvanize the abolitionist movement.

Uncle Tom's Cabin

400

Which president issued the Emancipation Proclamation?

Abraham Lincoln

400

This organization was created to assist newly freed slaves during Reconstruction.

Freedman's Bureau

400

This law, enacted after the Compromise of 1877, enforced racial segregation.

Jim Crow

500

The 1820 compromise maintained the balance of power between free and slave states by drawing this line.

Missouri Compromise

500

This violent conflict in Kansas was over the issue of slavery in the territories.

"Bleeding Kansas"

500

Which federal holiday recognizes the news of the Emancipation Proclamation reaching citizens in Texas?

Juneteenth

500

This president's approach to Reconstruction was known as lenient and forgiving.

Andrew Johnson

500

The compromise was made to settle the disputed election of 1876 between Hayes and this candidate.

Samuel Tilden

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