Compromise/Conflict
Included California's admission as a free state and a strict fugitive slave
Compromise of 1850
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
This was created by Congress to provide clothing, medical care, and education to freedmen and white refugees.
Freedmen's Bureau
Person who became president after Lincoln's assassination
Andrew Johnson
Bestselling writer of a book that fueled hatred for slavery in the North. (Name the book also for extra points.)
Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
popular sovereignty
The early Union strategy that attempted to starve the South into submission
the Anaconda Plan
This act, passed in 1867, divided the South into 5 military districts.
Reconstruction Act
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Radical Republicans
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South - increasing hatred
John Brown
The Supreme Court case that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights
The Secretary of State who signed a treaty with Russia that gave Alaska to the United States.
William Seward
Underground railroad conductor - AKA Moses
Harriet Tubman
Political Party created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
the Republican Party
These are the two generals most closely associated with the Second Battle of Bull Run
General Lee and General Pope
Passed to combat attacks on the suffrage rights of African Americans from state officials or violent groups like the KKK
Force Acts
Economic system that emerges in the South after the Civil War
sharecropping
His beating by Brooks further emotionalized the slavery issue in the 1850s
Charles Sumner
Post-secession attempt to prevent a Civil War
Crittenden Compromise
General Grant planned to capture the main junction of the railroads in the Mississippi Valley at Corinth, but these plans were foiled when he was defeated at this battle in 1862.
Battle of Shiloh
Congress passed this act in 1867, which required the president to get consent from the Senate before he could remove his cabinet members
Tenure of Office Act
A derogatory term for white Southerners who supported Reconstruction and the Republican Party after the Civil War.
scalawag
This persons presidency was a major component of the Compromise of 1877