Pre-Civil War
The Missouri Compromise (1820) raised the issue of whether this practice would be allowed in the Louisiana Territory.
Practice of Slave Labor
This is the type of economy in the northern states that was based mainly on factories and industry.
Factory economy.
Hopes of a quick victory for both sides ended with this battle, where people had picnics to watch the action.
Battle of Bull Run
This was the Union's plan for blockading Confederate ships, dividing the South into sections, and capturing the heart of the Confederacy at Richmond, VA to destroy their government.
"Anaconda Plan"
This is where General Robert E. Lee of the Confederate Army surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant of the Union Army, ending the Civil War without further suffering or hatred.
Appomattox Courthouse
This was the system that critics referred to as "slavery with a paycheck"
Sharecropping
The Compromise of 1850 included adding California as a new state to the Union, and also allowed for a stricter act to be passed, which made it a crime to harbor/help runaway enslaved people. What was this act?
Fugitive Slave Act
The wide, fertile coastal plains of the South were ideal for growing this category of crop, which made farm owners wealthy...
Cash Crops
This is the battle where Confederate General Robert E. Lee lost so many troops that he would never invade the North again. It is considered a turning point in the war.
Battle of Gettysburg
General Tecumseh Sherman took his 60,000 Union troops from Atlanta, GA to Savannah, GA in his famous "march to the sea". What strategy did he use to accomplish this march?
"Total war" or "scorched earth".
Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by this man at Ford's Theater in Washington DC.
John Wilkes Booth
The first of the Reconstruction Amendments, the 13th Amendment tackles what issue.
Slavery
The Kansas-Nebraska Act implemented this process for deciding if a state would allow slavery, which led to bloodshed over the issue of slavery in Kansas.
Popular Sovereignty
Cotton became the South's leading cash crop following this invention from Eli Whitney.
The Cotton Gin
It was during this battle that the 54th Regiment of Massachusetts, made up exclusively of African American men, inspired others to join the fight.
Battle of Fort Wagner
After the Battle at Gettysburg, Abraham Lincoln delivered this speech in which he invoked the principles of human equality contained in the Declaration of Independence.
The Gettysburg Address
Abraham Lincoln was the main person behind these two reconstruction plans after the Civil War.
Ten Percent Plan and 40 Acres and a Mule
This man followed Andrew Johnson as President of the United States. He was a famous Union General in the Civil War.
Ulysses S. Grant
This was the Supreme Court Case that came with the decision that slavery could not be kept out of the territories and that people of African descent were not citizens.
Dred Scott Case
Northern states had thousands of miles of this type of transportation, which would prove to be important during the Civil War.
It was with this battle that Union forces took control of the Mississippi River.
Battle of Vicksburg
This was another famous proclamation by Abraham Lincoln which declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and henceforward shall be free."
Emancipation Proclamation
Andrew Johnson squared off against this group in congress to form a Reconstruction plan for rebuilding the South after Abraham Lincoln's death.
Radical Republicans.
The 14th and 15th Amendments took care of giving these rights to African Americans in the United States.
Citizenship and Voting.
Who said the famous line "It is our duty to protect them, and provide for them while they are unable to provide for themselves"?
Thaddeus Stevens