Politics
A state that entered as free under the Compromise of 1850.
What is California?
Lincoln gave his famous address after this battle, honoring the fallen.
What is Gettysburg?
The poster child for radial abolitionism
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Northerners who came south in attempt to profit after the war.
What are Carpetbaggers?
Compromise that attempted to balance free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The region and political party that would most support the Dred Scott decision.
Who are Southern Democrats?
A "pre-civil" war fought in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is bleeding Kansas?
The religious movement which introduced many people to abolition.
What is The Second Great Awakening?
Southerns who cooperated with the Northerners who came to profit after the war.
What are Scallywags?
Where the South exported most of its cotton.
What is Europe?
Political party and region that would most support equal rights for African-Americans after the war.
Who are Northern Republicans?
The "most indecisive decisive battle of the war"
What is Antietam?
Members of this group also tended to be abolitionists.
Who are Women's rights activists?
The amendment that gave freed slaves the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
This deal ensured Rutherford B. Hayes would become president, while also guaranteeing the end of reconstruction in the south.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Constitutional amendment guaranteeing equal protection under the law, no matter their race.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Served to weaken Southern moral and destroy their supply lines.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Radical abolitionists believed in this method for freeing slaves.
What is immediate emancipation with no compensation.
This organization helped newly freed blacks start their lives as free people.
What is the Freedman's Bureau.
The Civil War led to the expansion of power to this branch of the federal government.
What is the executive branch?
The new Fugitive Slave Act led to the passing of these laws in the North.
What are personal liberty laws?
After a Southern victory at this battle, Lee famously declared "it is good war is so terrible- or we should grow fond of it"
What is the Battle of Fredricksburg?
William Lloyd Garrsion's abolitionist newspaper.
What is The Liberator?
Crimes blacks would be charged with unfairly such as soliciting, breaking curfew, or being unemployed.
What are vagrancy laws?
Court case decided by Justice Tarney stating that Habeas Corpus could only be suspended by congress.
What is Ex Parte Merryman?