Compromised
Compromises
Compromises
The purpose behind the three territorial compromises leading up to the Civil War.
What is maintaining balance between free and slave states?
These states, despite having slavery, stayed loyal to the Union and did not join the Confederacy.
What are the Border states?
The event that convinced many Southern states to secede from the Union.
What is Lincoln's victory in the 1860 election?
The period of time immediately following the Civil War, when the U.S. government attempted to rebuild the country.
What is Reconstruction?
This lanky lawyer led the Union through the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This phrase, used by leading Democrats, meant that the people of a region should be allowed to vote directly on an issue.
What is popular sovereignty?
This strategy called for a blockade of the South's ports in order to squeeze them of their resources.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The official name for the recently seceded states in the South.
What is the Confederate States of America?
This politician chose a lenient, gentle approach to the South, and pardoned many former Confederates.
Who is President Andrew Johnson?
The ruling on this man's freedom suit said the Constitution wasn't for anyone of African decent, that only citizens can sue in court, and that slaves were property.
Who is Dred Scott?
This Act, added to the Compromise of 1850, outraged Northern abolitionists by forcing them to help slave-catchers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This document added to the Union's war-goal by making slavery a central point of the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
One of the major advantages the Confederates had over the Union.
What is a defensive war-goal, or knowledge of terrain, or superior generalship?
This system had farmers raise crops for a landowner in return for use of their land, but often included unfair interest rates and spiraling debt.
What is sharecropping?
This zealous abolitionist tried to start a slave-revolt at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
This state was created from part of Massachusetts specifically to balance Missouri's entry into the Union.
What is Maine?
This Union General psychotically scorched the South, waging Total War and creating billions of dollars worth of damage.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
The first state to leave the Union.
What is South Carolina?
This Federal Agency gave help to millions by providing food, housing, and medical aid, and assisted in founding schools and hospitals.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Angel of the Battlefield, this woman founded the Red Cross and was a volunteer nurse who treated wounded soldiers during the war.
Who is Clara Barton?
This geographic line divided the Louisiana Purchase between free territory and slave territory.
What is the 36°30′ parallel?
This regiment was the first unit in the U.S. Army made up of almost all African Americans.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment?
The location where Lee surrendered to Grant, often called the place where the war ended.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This Act, which prevented a president from removing government officials without approval, led to the impeachment of President Johnson.
What is the Tenure of Office Act?
The first African American U.S. Senator.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?