Antebellum Period
People
Battles/Strategies
Reconstruction
Writings
100
This compromise involved Missouri becoming a slave state, Maine being a free state, and anything above Missouri's southern border staying free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
He was the president of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This battle was the last invasion in the North and the bloodiest battle of the Civil War. After this battle, Lincoln came here and gave his most famous speech.
What is Gettysburg?
100
This plan was to punish the South for starting the war and the Black Codes.
What is the Congressional or Military Reconstruction Plan?
100
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200
This law involved Kansas and Nebraska being able to decide whether they wanted to be a free or a slave state, repealing the Missouri Compromise.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This person had a few materials but had to buy the rest from the landowner. Then that person would work the landowner's land and give part of their harvest to the landowner.
What is a tenant farmer?
200
This is the first battle of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
200
This plan was to let the South recover quickly by making it easy for them to rejoin with only 10% having to swear allegiance to the Union.
What is the Presidential Plan?
200
This amendment gave all men over the age of 21 the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
300
This compromise involved California coming in as a free state, the South receiving the Fugitive Slave Law, and Georgia writing its own Platform supporting it.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
This farmer had nothing to offer a landowner but his labor, and he would work on the land and give some of his crops to the landowner.
What is a sharecropper?
300
This is the bloodiest one day battle of the Civil War and led to Lincoln claiming victory and issuing the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
300
Two ways slave labor was replaced in Georgia
What are tenant farming and sharecropping?
300
This amendment gave African-Americans rights as a citizen.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
South Carolina tried to do this when it wanted to ignore or cancel out the tariffs by seceding from the Union.
What is nullify?
400
He was the vice-president of the Confederacy and later a Senator and Governor of Georgia.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
400
This battle fought in Georgia was the second bloodiest battle of the Civil War and pushed the Union troops out of Georgia for a while and back into Chattanooga.
What is Chickamauga?
400
This organization helped slaves who were recently free with things like labor contracts and public education.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
400
This document freed the slaves in the South in 1863 if the South continued to fight.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
He was a slave who sued his master for his freedom after he lived in a free state, but the Supreme Court said he did not have the right to sue.
Who is Dred Scott?
500
He was one of the first African-American legislators from Georgia and a leader in the Republican party.
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
500
This is the Union strategy to squeeze out the South by closing off their harbors?
What is the Anaconda/blockade strategy?
500
These two groups of people caused a "white backlash" against the Republican party and led to a Democratic-controlled government in much of the South after Reconstruction.
What are carpetbaggers and scalawags?
500
This statement made by Georgia supported any compromise that was made to keep the balance between the free and slave states and encouraged other southern states to do the same.
What is the Georgia Platform?
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