This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe greatly fueled northern abolitionism in the years leading up to the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
This act passed in 1854 overturned the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and allowed territories to vote on the slavery issue.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
The name for those in Congress who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
This Civil War-era law gave settlers 160 acres of free land in the west if they were willing to settle there
What is the Homestead Act
Collectively called the "Civil War Amendments" these 3 amendments abolished slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights to former slaves.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
This American state was once an independent republic that broke away from Mexico.
What is Texas
Harriet Tubman worked as a "conductor" on this, where she helped countless slaves escape to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad
The Northern victory for the Union that kept the British out of the war on behalf of the South and allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam
System of tenant farming many former slaves were forced into following the Civil War that closely resembled slavery.
What is sharecropping
The Civil War event that exposes the frustrations over economic inequality of conscription
What are the Draft Riots in NYC
This ended Reconstruction as federal troops were pulled out of the South in exchange for Rutherford B. Hayes being given the Presidency.
Compromise of 1877
The document that asserted that slavery should not exist in any lands gained in the Mexican Cession. It intensified the national debate over slavery.
What is the Wilmot Proviso
Three major events that led to the Civil War
What is Bleeding Kansas, the beating of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Dred Scott Case, Harper's Ferry Raids, etc.
Issued in 1863, this changed the focus of the war and freed all slaves in the states in open rebellion.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
Three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship
What are: Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels, Poll taxes, Literacy tests, Civil War Amendments