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This event occurred by a radical abolitionist who wanted to arm slaves for a revolt.
What is John Brown’s Raid at Harpers’ Ferry?
This 1820 agreement allowed the balance of free and slave states to stay equal.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This party formed as a result of Whigs and Democrats agreeing to be against slavery.
What are the Republicans?
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was Lincolns original plan for reconstruction.
What is the 10% plan?
This term refers to the cultural and political differences between the North and the South.
What is sectionalism?
This agreement strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act.
What was the Compromise of 1850?
Lincoln's reasoning for the Civil War
What is to preserve the Union?
This battle, a northern victory, is considered the turning point in the Civil War.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
This amendment permanently ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th amendment?
This idea would allow territories to decide whether or not they would be slave or free states.
What is popular sovereignty?
Lincoln claimed this law was passed as a military necessity.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This States’ Rights advocate forced Lincoln to take a stronger position against slavery during his congressional debates.
Who was Stephen Douglas?
The location where Lee surrendered to Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
These were laws that were put into place to restrict African Americans from doing routine, daily tasks, without discrimination in the south.
What are black codes/ Jim Crow laws?
This Compromise allowed California to enter as a free state, The Mexican cession would be divided into two territories, slave trade would be abolished in the District of Columbia, but slavery itself could continue. and Congress strengthen the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850
This decision threatened to allow slavery to spread throughout the Western Territories.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Lincoln's views regarding slavery at the beginning of the CivilWar can be described in this way.
What is the view that slavery should not spread but that the government does not have a right to abolish it?
This state seceded from the Union first.
What is South Carolina
What is the Office of Tenure Act?
These are the four parties and their candidates from the election of 1860.
Who is
Republican- Lincoln
Constitutional Union- Bell
(South) Democrat- Breckinridge
(North) Democrat- Douglass ?
This group wanted to ensure that Kansas did not have slavery.
Who were the Free Soilers?
Lincoln abolishes this right in order to keep the peace during the Civil War.
What is the writ of Habeas Corpus?
This was the bloodiest SINGLE DAY battle of the Civil War. There was no clear winner. This battle gave Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
Reconstruction ended after the fraudulent election of this president.
What is Rutherford B. Hayes?