Who Said It?
Some Controversial Characters
Compromise/Conflict
Civil War
Reconstruction
100
"A house divided cannot stand"
Who is Abe Lincoln?
100
Bestselling book that fueled hatred for slavery in the North
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
Included California's admission as a free state and a strict fugitive slave
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans?
200
"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
200
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
Who is John Brown?
200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
200
The early Union strategy that attempted to starve the South into submission
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights?
300
"If there is any one principle dearer and more sacred than all others in free governments, it is that which asserts the exclusive right of a free people to form and adopt their own fundamental law, and to manage and regulate their own internal affairs and domestic institutions."
Who is Stephen Douglas?
300
Political party opposed to the extension of slavery (pre-Republicans)
Who are the Free Soilers?
300
The Supreme Court case that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
300
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
300
Economic system that emerges in the South after the Civil War
What is sharecropping?
400
Those damned sons of bitches thought they had me in a trap!
Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
Underground railroad worker - AKA Moses
Who is Harriet Tubman?
400
Political Party created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Republican Party?
400
The Civil War event that makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare
What are the Draft Riots in NYC?
400
Passed to combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans from state officials or violent groups like the KKK
What are the Force Acts?
500
"What is negro equality, about which so much is said by knaves, and some of which is believed by men who are not fools? It means, as understood by honest Republicans, just this much, and no more: every man, no matter what his race or color; every earthly being who has an immortal soul, has an equal right to justice, honesty, and fair play with every other man; and the law should secure him these rights.?
Who is Thaddeas Stevens?
500
His beating by Brooks further emotionalized the slavery issue in the 1850s
Who is Charles Sumner?
500
Post-secession attempt to prevent a Civil War
What is the Crittenden Compromise?
500
Relief agency created by federal legislation to support sick and wounded soldiers
What is the Sanitary Commission?
500
The two major components of the Compromise of 1876
What are: 1. Hayes (Republican) becomes President 2. End of military districts / Home Rule est.
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