Abraham Lincoln
The year that Abraham Lincoln was elected for president for his first term.
What is the election of 1860?
The amendment that abolished slavery.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
Union general who later became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Best known as the Commander of the Confederates States Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Opponents of slavery ranged from moderates, who proposed gradual abolition, to radicals, who demanded immediate abolition without compensating their owners.
What is the AntiSlavery Movement?
Domestic policy issued by Abraham Lincoln that ¨freed all enslaved persons in the states then at war with the United States.¨
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A loose network of Northern free blacks and courageous ex-slaves, with the help of some white abolitionists, who helped escaped slaves reach freedom in the North or in Canada.
What is the Underground Railroad?
In the first major battle of the war (July 1861), 30,000 federal troops marched from Washington D.C., to attack Confederate forces positioned near Bull Run Creek at Manassas Junction, Virginia.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
They took a defensive position: withheld cotton from the market (hoping that Europe would join them). As the war heated up they began using the offensive strategy moving into Northern places.
What is the Southern strategy?
Held property in common and kept women and men strictly separate (forbidding marriage and sexual relations).
Who are the Shakers?
The American actor who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The man who began publication of an abolitionist newspaper, The Liberator, an event that marks the beginning of the radical abolitionist movement.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
Championed civil rights for blacks.
Who are Radical Republicans?
A diplomatic incident in 1861, during the American Civil War, that threatened a war between the United Sates and the United Kingdom.
What is the Trent Affair?
They argued for a mystical and intuitive way of thinking as a means for discovering ones inner self and looking for the essence of God in nature.
Who are the Transcendentalists?
State in which Abraham Lincoln was born.
What is Kentucky?
Lewis Cass suggested that "slavery should be determined by a vote of the people who settled the territory."
What is popular sovereignty, or squatter sovereignty?
The year the Union won the Civil War.
What is 1865?
The year the Confederacy surrender.
What is (April 9th) 1865?
A social movement against the consumption of alcoholic beverages.
What is the Temperance Movement?
The anti-slavery book that President Lincoln reportedly said,¨So you're the little woman who wrote the book that made this great war.¨
What is Uncle Tomś Cabin?
In 1848, the political party that Northerners, who opposed allowing slavery in the territories, organized, which adopted the slogan ¨free soil, free labor, and free men.¨
What is the Free-Soil Party?
The Union's hopes for winning the war depended upon its ability to maximize its economic and naval advantages by an effective blockade of Confederate ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The year the Confederacy formed.
What is 1861?
Founded in 1828, with the objective of abolishing war: They actively protested the war with Mexico in 1846.
What is the American Peace Society?