Slavery in the US
How did the North encourage slavery?
Buying cotton, insurance, other answers.
John Brown was charged with these charges
Treason, murder, conspiracy
Appomattox Courthouse
Describe either the 13th, 14th, or 15th amendment.
13: No slavery
14: All people born in the US are citizens
15: Right to vote cannot be removed
The name for a person that wants to get rid of slavery.
Abolitionist
About how many slaves died in the Atlantic Slave Trade (by percent).
About 15-33%
This was the biggest reason for the South to leave the Union
Slavery
This was William T. Sherman's plan to attack the South by going from the Mississippi to the East Coast, destroying farms and railroads along the way.
Sherman’s March to the Sea
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 do?
Grant citizenship to African Americans
These stayed with the United States, but were mostly pro-slavery and were unsure about what side to join
Border State
This act made every American citizen responsible for catching runaway slaves.
Fugutive Slave Act of 1850
This compromise made California and New Mexico states in the US at the same time, and created the Fugitive Slave Act
Compromise of 1850
Who becomes president after Lincoln is assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
Why were KKK investigations usually unsuccessful?
White people in the south would not help with investigations or give information that would lead to KKK members being arrested.
To formally leave a group or an alliance. The Confederacy did this.
Secede
What did the American Colonization Society do?
Free enslaved people and send them to Africa to create colonies
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act lead to Bleeding Kansas?
Popular sovereignty caused many pro-slavery and anti-slavery people to flock to Kansas, and they fought each other there.
What was one impact of the confederate attack on Ft. Sumter?
1. Virginia, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Arkansas join the Confederacy
2. Lincoln recruits 75,000 troops
What is one example of the Black Codes?
Police could send African Americans to work for plantations to work off fines
Bans from renting/owning farms
Orphaned African Americans could be ‘unpaid apprentices’
A policy where the people in each state can vote on whether or not the state is a free state or slave state.
Popular Sovereignty
Explain the slave/free state balance before the Civil War and why it was important.
There needed to be an equal number of slave and free states, and it allowed for southern states to have enough power to keep slavery in place.
What states were admitted to the Union with the Missouri Compromise?
Missouri and Maine
Why was Lincoln afraid of losing the election of 1864?
The Union was not doing well in the war
Describe one of the decisions that came out of Dred Scott.
Slaves are property, and therefore do not have rights
The Missouri Compromise does not line up with the constitution
The Constitution protects slavery
Mindset that everyone participates in war, including civilians. Sherman used this on his March to the Sea.
Total War