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Reconstruction
100

This was the agreement that kept the same number of slave and free states.

What is Missouri Compromise?

100
This type of person wanted to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
100

This was used to transport soldiers and supplies quickly around the country.

What is the railroad or trains?

100

This was the one of the first African American regiments in the U.S. Army.

What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?

100

This person's Reconstruction plan promised to allow Southern states back into the U.S. quickly and would NOT punish Southerners.

Who is President Andrew Johnson?

200
The Supreme Court's ruling in this man's case stated that slaves were property and did not have the rights of a citizen.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
This group of people had the most power in Southern life and politics before the Civil War.
Who are plantation owners?
200

Clara Barton and other Civil War nurses made these changes to help wounded soldiers.

What are clean bandages, use of chemical antiseptics like bromine, OR triaging of patients?

200

This amendment freed enslaved people.

What is the 13th?

200
This organization provided food, clothing, and education to former slaves.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This act allowed slaveholders to recapture runaways in the north.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
300

This author's novel caused many more people in the north to become opposed to slavery.

What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?

300

This was used to send messages for long distances, allowing Lincoln to communicate with all his field commanders.

What is the telegraph?

300

According to Abraham Lincoln, this was the most important reason for going to war against the South.

What is to preserve the union (keep the country together)?

300

This restriction was an attempt by the South to limit the voting rights of African Americans.

What are poll taxes, literacy tests, OR grandfather clauses?

400
The Compromise of 1850 allowed this free state into the U.S.
What is California?
400

This was the direct cause of the South seceding.

What is the election of Lincoln?

400

This new innovation led to a deadlier, more accurate shot.

What is a minie ball?

400

This gave African American men the right to vote.

What is the 15th Amendment?

400

The Compromise of 1877 saw the Union Army give up control of the South. What did the north get out of the deal?

What is the presidency? (Hayes became president)

500
Popular sovereignty led to massive violence in one western territory. This became that territory's nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
500

John Brown led an attack against the U.S. arsenal at this location.

What is Harper's Ferry?

500

These new ships were stronger and tougher to sink.

What are ironclads

500

These were northerners who moved to the south after the war for power, money, or influence.

What are Carpetbaggers?

500

This group of Congressmen wanted to protect Freedmen's rights in the South.

Who are the Radical Republicans?

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