American Slavery
This invention in 1793 helped to make Southern slavery incredibly profitable.
What was the cotton gin?
What was the Gold Rush?
The two sides of the Civil War.
What were the Union and the Confederacy?
This famous amendment stated that everyone in the United States should be treated equally under the law.
What was the 14th Amendment?
"Four score and seven years ago..."
Who was Lincoln?
This infamous South Carolina senator argued that slavery was a "Positive Good" for everyone.
Who was John Calhoun?
This infamous 1854 act opened up the Louisiana Purchase to slavery, and sent the sectional crisis careening forward.
What was the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The name given to the Northern states where slavery was still legal.
What were the border states?
The president who followed Lincoln, he was angry and combative and not particularly effective.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What was the 13th Amendment?
The most famous civil rights leader of the 1800's, he escaped from slavery and became a nationally respected abolitionist leader.
Who was Frederick Douglass?
In this 1857 Supreme Court decision, the Court infamously stated that black people had no real rights of American citizenship.
What was the Dredd Scott decision?
The Union general whom Lincoln trusted most in the Civil War, who eventually helped to lead the North to victory.
Who was Ulysses Grant?
The first domestic American terrorist organization.
What was the KKK?
"This is a white man's country and a white man's government, and by God as long as I am president it shall remain so!"
Who was Andrew Johnson?
The bloodiest American slave rebellion was led by this man, who believed that God had chosen him to lead his people out of bondage.
Who was Nat Turner?
Buried in the Compromise of 1850 was this provision, which greatly angered the North by bringing the horrors of slavery into their own cities.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
The entire nature of the Civil War changed with the issuing of this famous statement at the end of 1862.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
This economic crash helped to trigger the collapse of Reconstruction.
What was the Panic of 1873?
(Name the speech) "Both parties deprecated war, but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive, and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. And the war came..."
What was the Second Inaugural Address?
This famous Congressman fought for the repeal of the "Gag Rule," which had banned Congress from debating slavery for years.
Who was John Adams II?
The most famous debates in American history.
What were the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
The capture (and destruction) of this famous Southern city helped to ensure Abraham Lincoln's re-election.
What was Atlanta?
The leader of the Radical Republicans in Congress, he dedicated his life to fighting for racial equality.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
"I, _____,am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood."
Who was John Brown?