The Road to War
The slave revolution that was violently put down before the civil war.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
The Battle that started the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumpter?
The name given to the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
What are the Reconstruction era Amendments?
The name of the Union and the confederacies best Generals.
Who is General Grant and General Lee?
The African American Underground railroad conductor who was wanted for upwards of 4 million dollars in todays currency.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This event lead to South Carolina being the first state to secede from the union.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln.
This side of the war had superior generals, and homefield advantage.
What is the Confederacy?
This group attempted to assault and intimidate Freedmen during elections.
What is the KKK.
The famous general who was killed by his own men, riding into camp late at night.
Who is stonewall Jackson?
The ex-slave who escaped to the North, wrote a book about his life, and was a famous speaker against slavery.
Who is Fredrick Douglas.
The compromise that added California to the union, and straightened the fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This battle was the broodiest of the civil war, leading to a new national cemetery at its cite.
What is the battle of Gettysburg?
Many African Americans took ______ contracts to make money after their emancipation.
What is Sharecropping?
The First Republican President.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The African American who tried to sue for their freedom, and was told that African Americans were not citizens by the Supreme Court.
Who was Dred Scott?
The compromise that added two states to the union, and temporarily ended the spread of slavery into the north.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
The place where the Civil War ended.
What is the Appomattox Courthouse?
Northern support for reconstruction waned because of these 4 things. (Give me 2)
What is corrupt presidential administrations, economic depression, focus on westward expansion, and northern apathy towards African Americans.
The President of the Confederate Sates.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Amendment that allowed African Americans to run for office.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This law opened two northern territories to popular sovereignty in regard to the issue of slavery. It also overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This battle lead to Lincoln publishing his Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the battle of Antietam?
This ended reconstruction, by pulling the Union troops out of the south.
What was the Compromise of 1877?
This president was Elected in 1877. He sold out the African Americans liveing in the south in favor of Republican control of the Executive branch.
Who is Rutherford B. Hayes?
This man founded the Tuskegee Institute.
Who is Booker T. Washington?