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Led a group of slaves that Killed about 60 whites in Hampton, Virginia.
What is Nat Turner
Belief that the United States, and the United States alone, was granted by God the will and the right to settle the rest of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
Various laws and rules put into place by southerners to regain control over blacks after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes
Opening engagement of the Civil War. It was bombed by confederate soldiers for two days until Union troops surrendered.
What is Fort Sumter
This man was a militant abolitionist, and became editor of the Boston publication, The Liberator, in 1831.
What is William Lloyd Garrison
A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the South. The term aimed to get rid of the contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that, "all men are created equal." It was one of the key causes of the Civil War.
What is Peculiar institution
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom after living in a northern portion of Louisiana for four years. He claimed that this made him and free man. The federal court decided that he wasn't allowed to sue because he was federal property, not a citizen.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
September 17th 1862, this battle ended the first confederate invasion into the north and gave Abraham Lincoln the will to pass the emancipation proclamation.
What is Battle of Antietam
A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, and became the best-known abolitionist speaker.
What is Frederick Douglass
The South was governed by a select few rich people who were the head of southern society. They determined the political, economic, and social life of their region. The wealthiest had homes in towns as well as summer homes, they traveled widely, and children got good education. These people were defined as the cotton magnates, the sugar, rice, and tobacco, the whites who owned at least 40 or 50 slaves and 800 or more acres
What is Planter aristocracy?
Consisted of: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, and Missouri. These were slave states that did not secede from the union. The states were valuable assets to both the confederacy and the Union
What is Border states?
The battle was a Union victory and was the confederacy's last attempted invasion on the North. This was a turning point for the North.
What is Battle of Gettysburg
A very important confederate leader who was crucial in many Confederate victories?
What is Robert E. Lee
A secret aid to escaping slaves that abolitionists provided in years leading up to the American Civil War
What is Underground Railroad
Admitted California as a free states and placed no restrictions on slavery in Utah and New Mexico. It adjusted the Texas and New Mexico Border, abolished slave trade in the District of Columbia and enforced strict fugitive slave laws. It was supposed to be the solution to the threat of National division.
What is Compromise of 1850
With a Union victory in this battle, the Union troops took control of the Mississippi river which split the south in half. This was a major tactical victory for the North.
What is Siege at Vicksburg
An actor who planned to abduct President Lincoln at the start of the war. When his plan failed, he proceeded to shoot Lincoln in the Back of the head at Fords theatre. He was later killed either by himself or by a soldier.
What is John Wilkes Booth?
Founded in 1866, this group spread through almost every southern state. They opposed all who promoted equality for blacks and used violence against the black community.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
An attempted Presidential impeachment by opposing radical republicans who disagreed with the President’s views and believed he had abused his power
What is Andrew Johnson Impeachment
Confederate troops surrendered after being surrounded by Union forces. This ended the fighting in the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Court House