Made California a free state and strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act
What is the Compromise of 1850?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is the popular book that brought light to the many horrors of slavery?
The set of laws used to govern the former Confederate states
What are the Reconstruction Acts?
A government agency created by Abraham Lincoln to help the emancipated slaves after the Civil War
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Battle of Shiloh
What is remembered by the name of the little whitewashed church?
Created a dividing line at 36°30', made Missouri a slave state and Maine a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln - Douglass Debates
A civil rights act passed to enforce the rights of emancipate slaves
What is the Civil Rights Act of 1871?
Sherman's campaign to burn the farms and pursue these soldiers to the outskirts of the city
What is the March on Atlanta?
The Wilmot's Proviso
What was the unsuccessful proposal to ban slavery in newly acquired land from Mexico?
Bleeding Kansas
What are a series of violent confrontations about slavery in Kansas?
What is the 13th Amendment?
On the night of April 14, 1865, while watching a play at Ford's Theatre with his wife. ______ was shot in the head by actor John Wilkes Booth.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
This famous battle lasted three days and was considered a turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Nat Turner's Rebellion
What was a major slave uprising in 1831?
What was Fort Sumter?
Equal protection clause of the Constitution
What is the 14th Amendment?
In 1865 & 1866 _____ _____ which were laws to restrict black freedom in the region.
What is Black Codes?
The man who planned the fateful attack on the Union Line.
Who is Robert. E. Lee?
Dred Scott Incident
John Brown's Raid
What was an unsuccessful attempt by a white Southern man to create a slave rebellion?
Granted voting rights to all US male citizens
What is the 15th Amendment?
Period of time from 1865-1877 to help the country adjust to the changes after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction?
Lee's surrender on the steps of the courthouse, which ended the Civil War
What is Appomattox?