Causes
What political party was more popular in the north?
Republicans
This organization developed in the south during reconstructed and often used violence and the threat of violence to disenfranchise black people
Who is the KKK
This person issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This type of farming developed in the south after the Civil War. It created a cycle of poverty for freedmen because they had to rent land and seed for farming
What is sharecropping
This president was impeached and almost removed from office for firing his secretary of war and his continuing vetoes of Reconstruction bills
Who is Andrew Johnson
This event caused the first seven southern states to secede
Election of Lincoln
Name at least 2 advantages that the north had over the south during the war
Possible answers: more factories, more people, more weapon factories, more railroads, a better navy,
(other answers accepted by teacher approval)
This abolitionist is famous for his autobiography and his speech "What to the Slave is the 4th of July?"
Who is Frederick Douglass
Radical Reconstruction, Military Reconstruction, or Black Reconstruction
This law stated that territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state or free state
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
These states were allowed to keep slavery after the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the border states
Bonus (Delaware, Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri)
This abolitionist was important for being the founder and editor of the most popular abolitionist newspaper The Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
What was the derogatory term for white southerners who were loyal to the union and supported the Republican party and black rights.
What is scalawags
What is the name for the widespread violence in this territory because of the popular sovereignty vote on slavery
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This law admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state, in an effort to keep the balance in the US.
What is the Missouri Compromise
This organization was created to provide former slaves with food, clothing, housing, and education
What is the Freedman’s Bureau
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to _________ in return for Rutherford Hayes being named president.
withdraw federal troops from the South
This Supreme Court cased increased sectionalism by ruling that Congress does not have the authority to limit slavery anywhere in the U.S. and that black people were not eligible for US citizenship
Dred Scott v Sandford
This law increased sectional tension by admitting Texas as a slave state, California as a free state, outlawing the slave trade in D.C., and strengthening the Fugitive Slave Law
What is the Compromise of 1850
This person lead the Raid on Harper's Ferry before the war.
Who is John Brown
Were laws that were designed to give the state control over blacks' behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on the blacks.
What are Black codes
This law was passed in the south to ensure that white people did not have to pass the same literacy test as black people
What is the Grandfather clause