Early Antebellum
Antebellum Reformers
Late Antebellum
Early Civil War
End of the Civil War
Reconstruction
Visuals & Documents
100
The economic systems of the North and South were based on these.
What is shipping and industry in the North and farming (agriculture) in the South?
100
The reform movement to end the use of alcohol was known as this.
What is Temperance?
100
The Compromise of 1850 centered around this state becoming a free state while popular sovereignty would settle future state status and the South would receive a stricter fugitive slave law.
What is California?
100
The first state to secede (leave) the Union after Lincoln was elected President in 1860 and the site of the first shots of the Civil War at Fort Sumter.
What is South Carolina?
100
In reality, where did the Emancipation Proclamation immediately free slaves after it was issued?
What is nowhere? It freed slave in the states in rebellion (Confederate States) but slaves were not freed until the Union defeated those states. It did not free slaves in border states that stay with Union when others joined Confederacy.
100
This amendment ended slavery and made the Emancipation Proclamation Constitutional.
What is the 13th?
100
This document officially ended Reconstruction because it removed the federal troops from the South in exchange for Democrats conceding the 1876 Presidency to Republican Rutherford B. Hayes, allowing for former Confederate leaders to take power again and to act against rights of former slaves.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
200
Economic differences between the North and South was causing this divisive term to grow.
What is sectionalism?
200
Women organized for suffrage (voting rights) in 1848 during a convention at this place.
Seneca Falls Convention, NY
200
Radical abolitionist that took to violence in Kansas and in Virgina, where he tried to start a slave revolt near Harpers' Ferry only to be executed there when it failed.
Who is John Brown?
200
Three advantages for the North in the Civil War.
What are larger population, more industries, more railroad lines, and a navy (control of the seas).
200
General Grant's successful siege of this city gave complete control of the Mississippi to the Union and split the Confederacy in half.
What is Vicksburg?
200
Former Confederate states were required to pass this amendment that prevented denying voting rights based on race as a condition of rejoining the United States.
What is the 15th?
200
This image of the Brooks-Sumner Affair relates to what controversy at the time.
What is Bleeding Kansas or Kansas-Nebraska Act? Note: Bleeding Kansas - when both slavery and anti-slavery supporters rushed to Kansas to create their governments resulting in two competing governments and eventual violence between the groups competing for power.
300
This invention increased the desire for Southern states to keep slavery.
What is the cotton gin?
300
He led the school reform and many of his ideas are still the basis for our modern public school system and teacher training.
Who is Horace Mann?
300
This transportation project accelerated the settlement of the west but also created greater tensions over the issue of slavery in those new growing settlements as territories applied for statehood.
What is the transcontinental railroad?
300
Three advantages for the South during the Civil War.
Better generals, more military trained population, could play defense, knew land better (most fighting in South)
300
This three day battle and Union victory put the Confederacy on the defensive (retreat) the rest of the Civil War and was the site of Lincoln's famous address.
What is Gettysburg?
300
Former Confederate states were required to pass this amendment that protected freed slaves as citizens as a condition of rejoining the United States.
What is the 14th?
300
This person that wrote the book below that upset both the North and South but for very different reasons.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
The first major controversy about slavery in the new territories started here.
What is Missouri?
400
This person pushed for reform in our prison (corrective versus punishment) and asylums advocating for the mentally ill (treatment and living conditions).
Who is Dorothea Dix
400
The Kansas-Nebraska Act created the two territories of Kansas and Nebraska, determined popular sovereignty would decide each status a free or slave which repealed (canceled out) this previous agreement.
What is the line between slave and free states established by the Missouri Compromise?
400
The first Battle of Bull Run showed proved this about the Civil War, especially to the North.
It was not going to be an easy and short war (North was in for a long difficult fight).
400
The Confederacy's supreme military commander that surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant at Appomattox Court House in VA. marking the end of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
400
Like President Lincoln, he wanted to be more forgiving and focus on healing the nation, although he did not share Lincoln's goal of protecting former slaves' rights.
Who is President Andrew Johnson (Lincoln's former Vice President)?
400
The parties (groups) agreeing to the treaty reflected below.
What is the United States and Britain (England)?
500
This said Missouri would be a slave state, Maine would be free, and no slavery would be allowed in the future north of Missouri's southern border (36, 30 latitude).
What is the Missouri Compromise?
500
The outcome of the first US women's suffrage convention resulted in this document mirroring and mocking the Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of Sentiments?
500
This Supreme Court decision was a setback for slaves' rights and freedom when the court decided that slaves were property and slaveholders ahd property protections in all states, even those that outlawed slavery.
What is the Dred Scott case, 1857?
500
The takeover of this port city gave the Union control of the lower Mississippi.
What is New Orleans?
500
Assassin who killed President Abraham Lincoln shortly after the Civil War ended.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
500
This group wanted to punish the Confederate States and not make it easy for them to rejoin the United States.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
500
This short speech by Abraham Lincoln discusses how the US must honor those that died during the Civil War by striving to better protect people's freedoms and be a nation for all people, governed by the people now and into the future.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
600
This state believed it had to nullify national laws and actions because of their state's rights, even challenging the President on the issue.
What is South Carolina?
600
These two women organized the first US women's rights convention where suffrage (political equality - voting) became the main goal.
Who are Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton?
600
This ended the Mexican-American War, that broke out after the US brought Texas into the US as a state, giving the US huge pieces of land that would become many of our western states, including California, and established the Rio Grande river as the Mexico and US border in Texas.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo?
600
The Battle of Antietam is significant for these three reasons.
What is it was the bloodiest day of the war, scared the British off from trying to help the Confederacy, and gave Lincoln a victory to announce the Emancipation Proclamation?
600
General William Tecumseh Sherman led Union forces on a "March to the Sea" through this state and captured this city utilizing "total war" (destroying everything along the way including whole towns) crippling the Confederacy and helping President Lincoln win reelection in 1864.
What is Georgia and Atlanta?
600
This was put in charge of the Confederate States to protect freed slaves from former Confederate leaders trying take rights away by using things like the black codes (laws passed to specifically limit freed slaves' rights).
What is the Union Military or federal troops (Military Reconstruction)?
600
This Union Civil War plan below focused on a naval blockade to cut of supplies to Confederacy and taking control of Mississippi to cut the Confederacy off from each side of the river, essentially squeezing the South to defeat.
What is the Anaconda Plan?