Beliefs
a widely held belief that incorporating new territory was sanctioned by God
What is Manifest Destiny
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
Many Southerners thought that this issue BESIDES slavery was a cause to secede from the Union.
What is State's Rights
What mode of transportation did the North build and use throughout the war?
What are railroads
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans
White settlement in the West was greatly aided by this Civil War-era law
What is the Homestead Act
General in charge of the Armies of the Confederate States of America
Who is Robert E. Lee
General in charge of leading U.S. troops after 1863 through the end of the War; elected president in 1868 (took office in 1869)
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
What mode of communication did the North use throughout the war?
What is the telegraph
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott
The [military] strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
What is the Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
this 1863 address begins with the words, “Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth, upon this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
50 bonus points: If a score is 20 years, to which year is Lincoln referring?
Gettysburg Address;
87 years; 1776
Who was the famous female nurse during the Civil War (also founded the Red Cross?)
Who is Clara Barton
What legislation protected the citizenship and protection of African Americans 2 years before the 14th Amendment? (Hint: it was vetoed by Johnson, but overridden by Congress)
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1866
The actions and events associated with Manifest Destiny can be linked to this belief - a continuity from colonial times
What is racial/cultural superiority
Lincoln claimed this right under the presidential war powers that allowed prisoners to be held without charge.
Suspension of Habeas Corpus
Alabama, Florida, South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
What were the first states to secede following Lincoln's election in 1860?
Radical Republicans would have believed in what types of things?
Civil Rights for All, Anti-Slavery, Harsh Punishment on Southerners, Equality, Universal Male Suffrage
Southern laws enacted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries by white Southern Democrat-dominated state legislatures to disenfranchise and remove political and economic gains made by black people during the Reconstruction period
Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes
The three main pieces of evidence used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
What are the Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The threefold purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation
What is discourage foreign assistance, cause unrest in the South, and change the focus of the war
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction of the south
Ten Percent plan
The causation of the sharecropping system in the South (causes and effect)
What is need for workers and need for land resulting in economic dependency