Sectional Crisis
Senator who was nearly caned to death
Charles Sumner
The war officially began at this fort in the Charleston Harbor in April 1861
Fort Sumter
The Wilmot Proviso proposed that this not be allowed in new territory purchased from Mexico
Slavery
Document that declared that people enslaved by rebels were now free
Emancipation Proclamation
White supremacist terrorist organization of Confederate veterans that attacked Black voters and politicians
Ku Klux Klan
This Supreme Court case declared that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional.
Dred Scott v. Sanford
This Westpoint graduate led Confederate troops along the Potomac destroying miles of railways and telegraph wires.
Stonewall Jackson
Missouri Compromise forbade slavery north of this latitude line.
36 30 parallel
Constitutional Amendment that said all born in the US were citizens with equal rights under the law
14th Amendment
Constitutional Amendment that banned voter restrictions based on “race, color, or prior servitude”
15th Amendment
Stephen Douglas’ Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to vote if they wanted slavery, a policy known by this two word name
Popular Sovereignty
New York City exploded in violence after the Union instituted this
The draft
Named for a wealthy Massachusetts man, this town was the home of two anti-slavery newspapers and the site of “Bleeding Kansas.”
Lawrence, KS
Name for laws passed in Southern states right after the Civil War, during Presidential Reconstruction, that heavily restricted the rights of freedpeople
Black Codes
President distracted from Reconstruction by scandal and the Panic of 1873
Ulysses S Grant
DAILY DOUBLE: This politician who successfully negotiated a compromise between Jackson and South Carolina during the nullification crisis was known as “the great pacificator.”
Henry Clay
Three of the four “border states” that stayed in the Union despite having slavery
Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland, and Delaware
The native nation in Minnesota that used the Civil War as an opportunity to rebel
Dakota
Agricultural practice that left many freedpeople trapped in debt
Sharecropping
Town in Louisiana where an infamous massacre took place in 1873
Colfax
In response to the Kansas-Nebraska Act this organization provided assistance to any family that would move to the territories and vote against slavery.
Emigrant Aid Society
Historian who argued that enslaved people were the primary agents of their emancipation
Ira Berlin
Name four of the current states the US purchased from Mexico after the Mexican War
California, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, Utah (Texas already independent)
Plan that created Military Districts(5), required states to hold state conventions to create constitutions that Ratify 14th amendment, included the 13th amendment included, guarenteed Suffrage for black men and limited of voting rights for some former confederate officials
The Reconstruction Act 1867
Name 2 of the five tenets of the Lost Cause Myth
Nobility of Confederate leaders like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.
Defense of states' rights, rather than preservation of chattel slavery, was the primary cause that led eleven Southern states to secede from the Union, thus precipitating the war.
Secession was a justifiable constitutional response to Northern cultural and economic aggressions against the Southern way of life.
Slavery was a benign institution, and the slaves were loyal and faithful to their benevolent masters.
Lose was inevitable because the North had more money and resources.