Rights
Which amendment freed slaves
The Thirteenth Amendment
What Harriet Beecher Stowe Novel convinced Northerners to take the issue of slavery more seriously
Uncle Tom's Cabin
What was one of the turning point battles of the Civil War?
Gettysburg or Vicksburg
Group of northerners that traveled south to help or take advantage of southerners during Reconstruction
Carpetbaggers
Government program in the South educating and providing assistance to the former slaves and poor whites
Freedmen's Bureau
Which act gave territories Popular Sovereignty over the issue of slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
This conflict accelerated the issue of slavery as the United States gained thousands of new miles of land.
Mexican American War
The event that most directly caused South Carolina to secede was..
The election of Lincoln
Group of southerners that voted for the Republicans during Reconstruction
Scalawags
What was the was a loose illegal network of transporting runaway slaves to the free north called?
Underground Railroad
Which slave from Missouri sued his owner for his freedom claiming that the northern part of the Louisiana Territory had become free land because of the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott
The enforcement of which law drove a wedge between the North and the South?
The Fugitive Slave Law
This event changed the moral purpose of the Civil War
Emancipation Proclamation
President during Reconstruction that was impeached
Name of the Union strategy to defeat the South
Anaconda Plan - "Scott's Great Snake"
Which defined citizenship for a freeman born in the U.S. It disallowed states to take away the basic rights and privileges of the people.
14th amendment
The Fugitive Slave Act and the end of the slave trade in D.C. were all part of this Henry Clay Compromise.
The compromise of 1850
General Sherman
Group of people that terrorized African Americans and northern supporters during Reconstruction
KKK or White League
Abraham Lincoln's plan for Reconstruction of the south
Ten Percent plan
Which defined voting rights for all citizens
15th amendment
States that maintained slaves but also sided with the North during the Civil War were called...
Border States
The first battle of the Civil war occurred where?
Fort Sumter South Carolina
Name given to the group of southerners that worked to rid the south of northern influence and military presence and return to power politically in their respective states.
Redeemers
System of labor that involves former slaves working for their former slave masters.
sharecropping