Abolitionists
This famous abolitionist can be found in several places in Room 214, including the back of Ms. Schewe's phone case.
Who is Frederick Douglass
Under this repugnant Act of 1850, any white person could accuse any Black person of being a runaway enslaved person.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
How many Battles did we talk about during our second Fill in the Blank Note lecture?
What is 5
This island nations successful revolution was hugely inspirational to enslaved people and abolitionists.
What is Haiti
Who is Andrew Johnson
This spy and future Civil War veteran was known as the "Black Moses" for their most famous task, helping enslaved people to freedom.
Who is Harriet Tubman
This political party was founded in the 1850s as explicitly anti-slavery
What is the Republican Party
This battle marked the official start of the Civil War. Confederate soldiers seized the Union Fort at __________, South Carolina
What is Fort Sumter
According to historians, most casualties in the Civil War were due to __________ not deaths on the battlefield.
What is disease
This government agency was establish in order to help assimilate recently freed people into life as a US citizen.
Who is John Brown
What is Bleeding Kansas
In the South, you could avoid the draft if you were a member of this class of people.
What were upper class/wealthy enslavers
The process of putting a member the government on trial to consider there possible removal from office. It happened to Andrew Johnson during Reconstruction.
What is impeachment
This abolitionist and Congressman was also a "Radical Republican" who sought to give freed people full equality under the law. Ms. Schewe is a huge fan.
Who is Thaddeus Stevens
In the Election of 1860, Abraham Lincoln received how many votes in nine states?
This battle remains the bloodiest day in American Military History, with over 20,000 people dying in one day.
What is Antietam
This riot occurred in New York City and was started by mostly Irish immigrants who rejected the ideas of emancipation and were worried that freed people would "take their jobs"
What were the New York City Draft Riots
The ideology rewriting and romanticizing the history of the Civil War and the Antebellum South.
The "Lost Cause"
This abolitionist and feminist took her enslaver to court and won full custody of her son. She also has a quote on our classroom wall, "Ain't I A Woman?"
Who is Sojourner Truth
This state was the first state to formally secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina
This battle was not fought on a traditional battlefield, but rather by surrounding a strategic city in Mississippi.
What is Vicksburg
Name ONE Confederate recipe title that we looked at in class.
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