Causes of the Civil War
This state was the backdrop for a series of 7 debates over a 3 month period between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen Douglas, who were running for a senate seat.
What is Illinois
This addition to the US Constitution made slavery, not being used as a punishment for a crime, illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment
He was the 16th President of the United States, and the person synonymous with the abolition of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This is a term used to describe a person who favors the dissolution of the institution of slavery.
What is an abolitionist
This is the year the Civil War ended, and also the year Abraham Lincoln was assassinated.
What is 1865
In an attempt to resolve the issue of slavery and stop the dissolution of the Union, The Compromise of 1850 included this many separate bills.
What is 5
Between the years of 1870 and 1877 17 African-American men were elected to this office of the federal government.
What is Congress
He lead the Raid on Harper's Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown
This term refers to a person who is forced to work for, and obey another person for no pay, while also being considered "property" of that person.
What is a slave
People often refer to this as America's "original sin."
What is slavery
This act that was signed into law in 1854 made it so that new states and territories could choose whether or not they joined the union as a free state or a slave state, known as popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Added to the Constitution in 1870, this amendment made it illegal to deny to right to vote to a person because of their race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment
Sued his owner for his freedom under the assumption that because he had once resided in a "free state" he was a free man.
Who is Dred Scott
What is Reconstruction
He is famous for yelling the phrase "sic semper tyrannis" when he jumped from the balcony after killing President Abraham Lincoln?
Who is John Wilkes Booth
The Missouri Compromise of 1820, made this illegal above the 36th parallel.
What is slavery
This amendment states that all people born in, or naturalized in the United States are legally citizens of the US and the state in which they reside.
What is the 14th Amendment
This man ran against Abraham Lincoln in an Illinois senate race, which he won, and also in the Presidential Election of 1860.
Who is Stephen A. Douglas
Considered to be the first organized terror movement, this group was founded in 1866 as a white supremacist group who assaulted and murdered African-American people aimed at "purifying the country."
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
During the Civil War and Reconstruction he is considered to be the "most famous black man" in the country.
Who is Frederick Douglas
Claiming "Manifest Destiny" this series of events created greater tensions between the north and the south due to the worry that additional states or territories brought in on either side could create a greater divide on the issue of slavery, giving one side more power to push their views.
What is Westward Expansion
What are "Black Codes"
Who is Brigadier General P.G.T. Beauregard
This is an organization founded after the Civil War. Created to assist formerly enslaved people find, food, housing, and basic necessities after they were granted their freedom.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
Today this political party is seen very differently than it was during Reconstruction. Back then it was seen as the "Party of the African-American" and fought for civil rights for all, and an interracial democracy.
What is the Republican Party