Antebellum
This word refers to the increasing division between regions; caring more about your region than your nation.
What is sectionalism?
This was the first battle of the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the first President to be impeached.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
These were laws made AFTER Reconstruction that established racial segregation
What are Jim Crow laws?
_________ wanted to go easy on the South during Reconstruction, while __________ wanted to punish the South
President Johnson, Radical Republicans (Congress)
This event led to the secession of the South.
What is the Election of 1860/Lincoln's Election?
This is the location of the surrender of the Confederacy.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This event led to more reform movements, including abolition and the women's rights movement.
What is the Second Great Awakening?
These were laws made DURING Reconstruction that limited Black Americans rights in the south.
What are Sharecroppers?
This Act led to a 'mini Civil War' between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This Union plan involved splitting the South, cutting it off from trade, and taking their capital
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This is President Lincoln's goal during the Civil War.
To preserve the Union
The Emancipation Proclamation did THIS
What is 'freed slaves in rebelling states'?
What are '5 Military Districts'
This compromise kept the balance between slave states and free states, and established a line at the 36-30 parallel.
Missouri Compromise
This is the route of General Sherman's plan to destroy the Confederacy.
Atlanta to Savannah, then up the Confederate coast.
This is the President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Explain the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford B Hayes was elected (Satisfied North) and Military Districts were taken out of the South (Satisfied South)
These were the 2 purposes of the KKK
1. Prevent policies that gave rights to Black Americans
2. Instill fear in Black Americans
List the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850
- California is a Free State
- Utah and New Mexico vote on slavery
- DC Slave trade is abolished
- Fugitive slave law strengthened
List 2 strengths of the Confederacy, and 2 of the Union
Confederacy: Food Production, Military Leadership
Union: Industry Production, Population
List 3 Abolitionists that fought to end slavery.
Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke Sisters, Harriet Beecher Stowe, etc.
Define the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
13 - Abolished slavery
14 - Anyone born on U.S. soil is a citizen; equal protection for all citizens
15 - Right to vote cannot be limited based on race
These 3 things were used to limit black people from voting.
1. Poll Taxes
2. Literacy Tests
3. Grandfather Clauses