The belief that American's had a God-given right to control the entire American Continent
100
Who was the leader of the Underground railroad?
Harriet Tubman
100
The document Lincoln wrote freeing ONLY freeing the slaves in the "rebellious" states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
When Abraham Lincoln became president, what did the Southern Sates do?
They seceded from the Union.
100
What was it called when the North goes into the south to rebuild, regulate, and punish them?
Reconstruction
200
What is a Scalawg?
A Southerner who supported Reconstruction.
200
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
Union president during the Civil War
Wrote the Emancipation Proclamation
Gave the Gettysburg Address
200
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
It gives the states popular sovereignty. (They choose if they become a slave or free state)
200
What was the significance of Fort Sumter?
The beginning of the Civil War
200
What do the 13th, 14, and 15, Amendments do?
13th--Frees the slaves
14th--Makes the slaves citizens
15th--Gives former slaves the right to vote
300
What is a Northerner who moved south during Reconstruction? (to gain political and economic power)
Carpetbagger
300
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The President after Lincoln, who had to deal with Reconstruction.
300
What was "Bleeding Kansas?"
Bleeding Kansas was when Northerners and Southerners rushed into Kansas to vote about the slavery issue, and it became bloody and violent.
300
What was the turning point of the war?
Gettysburg
300
What is the processes of renting land, and then paying the rent with your harvest (for no profit) called?
Sharecropping
400
What is Sectionalism?
Promoting the interests of a section or region instead of the entire country. (such as the North v. the South)
400
Who was the President of the Confederate?
Jefferson Davis
400
What are the two conditions of the Compromise of 1850?
1. California becomes a State
2. The north enforces the Fugitive Slave Laws
400
What was the purpose of half-way through the war, making it's purpose about slavery?
3 Options
1. Slaves would fight against the South
2. Lincoln could use the Emancipation Proclamation as a weapon/punishment
3.To gain Northern supporters
400
What was Lincoln and Johnson's plan for reconstruction?
The 10% plan? (go easy)
500
What is Disenfranchisement?
The process of taking away someone's right to vote.
500
Who was Dred Scott?
The Slave who tried to gain his freedom through the Courts, but they ruled that Slaves were property, not people.
500
What is What are the three conditions of the Missouri Compromise?
1. Main became a free State
2. Missouri becomes a slave state
3. Creates a dividing line for new states (36, 30): North--Free South--Slave
500
What were the two most important causes of the civil war?
1. Sates Rights (v. the Federal Government) SECTIONALISM/SECTIONAL BALANCE
2. Slavery
500
What was the group of people in Congress called who wanted to harshly punish the South for the war?