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She was the most famous person associated with the Underground Railroad.
Who was Harriet Tubman?
This idea stated that slavery would be banned everywhere north of the border between Missouri and Arkansas... Except for Missouri.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This battle was the official end to the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Most slaves turned to this line of work after they were freed.
What is sharecropping?
If you were someone who supports an economy based on business or manufacturing, you are this...
What is an industrialist?
This man controlled the Confederate States of America. AKA the South.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
This act said that the new states of Kansas and Nebraska would get to choose whether or not they would be slave states. It also repealed the Missouri Compromise.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This is the city that General Sherman destroyed on his way to the Atlantic Ocean.
What is Atlanta?
The 14th Amendment allowed this under the Constitution?
What gives all people equal protection under the law?
This is the name of Abraham Lincoln's assassin.
Who is John Wilkes Booth.
This man signed the 13th Amendment into law.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This famous court case said that slaves could not file a lawsuit for their freedom because slaves are property and do not have rights.
What was the Dred Scott Decision?
The South bombarded this fort to start the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
This type of of law was made to continue segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This is what the House of Representatives did to Andrew Johnson.
What is impeached?
This Civil War hero became president following Andrew Johnson.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This is the rule that forced people in the North to return slaves to the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was the largest battle of the Civil War and marked the turning point for the North.
What is Gettysburg?
This bureau was established in the South to help white and black people get assistance to food, shelter and medical care.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These are two advantages that the North had before the start of the Civil War.
1- Higher population
2- More transportation
3- More financially stable (more banks)
This man led a slave revolt killing over 50 white people leading to strict laws against educating African Americans in the South.
Who was Nat Turner?
These are TWO things that were included in the Compromise of 1850.
1- Fugitive Slave Act was put into place.
2- The slave trade officially ends in Washington DC.
3- New states will have the right to choose whether or not they wanted to be free.
4- California was admitted as a free state.
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
Name two of three ways that African American men were prohibited from voting in the South after Reconstruction.
1- Poll Tax- tax made on people in order to vote.
2- Literacy Test- unfair test against African Americans in order to vote.
3- Grandfather Clause- any white male that was unable to perform the first two tasks could now vote because their father or grandfather was allowed to.
This is the court case that said facilities could be separate as long as they were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?