The Road
This brought Maine into the country as a free state and Missouri as a slave state. It also banned slavery in the new territories north of 36*30'.
Missouri Compromise - 1820
This is the name given to people in America that were trying to get rid of slavery all together.
Abolitionists
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
South Carolina
BONUS
What led to SC almost seceding from the Union about 30 years prior to the Civil War?
This was Abraham Lincoln's main goal when the Civil War first started.
To restore and reunite the country as quickly as possible.
What did the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments do?
13th - Ended Slavery
14th - Citizenship
15th - Right to Vote
This Supreme Court decision created a major divide in the country by stating that slavery could not be outlawed in any state due to property rights. It also stated that Black people were not citizens.
Dred Scott Decision
Dred Scott v Sandford
This law stated that Kansas and Nebraska would be decided by popular sovereignty, when it came to the question of slavery or free.
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Describe the 3 part plan that became the Union's War strategy.
1. Blockade the Southern states - no trade
2. Capture the Mississippi River and cut the south in half.
3. Capture Richmond, Va.
Bonus
Who came up with the plan and what was it nicknamed?
What was the name of the Fort that is credited with being the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Bonus
What was significant about this battle?
What did Lincoln promise with his 10% plan for Reconstruction?
Reentry of Southern states into the Union when 10% of the population took a loyalty oath.
This brought California in a free state, created harsher enforcement of the fugitive slave laws, allowed the new territories of New Mexico and Utah to use popular sovereignty to decide on the question of free or slave, and it helped fix the issues of the border of Tx.
Compromise of 1850
People decide - People who live in the area get to decide what they want through the democratic process of voting.
Describe 2 advantages that the North had over the South.
Manufacturing, money, people, Lincoln, transportation, allied support (eventually)
The name of the first all Black regiment in the Union Army, which led the attacks on Fort Wagner.
The 54th Massachusetts
During Reconstruction this white supremacist group committed acts of violence against African Americans to keep them from participating in politics and achieving economic progress.
KKK
This was the book that was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, which president Lincoln said helped to start the Civil War.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
This person was a prominent leader of the Underground Rail Road and helped to free a countless number of people from slavery.
Harriet Tubman
Believed to have saved between 70-100 people herself.
The Underground Railroad is estimated to have saved between 25K and 50K people.
Sherman's March to the Sea and his eventual capture of Atlanta was an example of what type of warfare.
Total War
What was significant about the Battle of Antietam, the single bloodiest day in American history?
It was a slight victory that led to President Lincoln declaring the Emancipation Proclamation, which led to foreign countries refusing to side with the confederacy.
This action by President Johnson showed that he would not be a supporter for greater rights for African Americans in the south.
Vetoed the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act of 1866
Will also accept:
Refused to enforce Field Order #15 by General Sherman
The election of this person, in 1860, proved to the Southerns that the United States was no longer a place for them.
Bonus
Why did the election of Lincoln prove to the south that they had to secede?
This is the term that is used to describe a region that becomes narrow minded and devoted to only one part of the country
Sectionalism
Why was the Battle of Gettysburg significant?
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all of the slaves in the Rebellious states.
Bonus
Which slave states stayed in the Union and fought with the North?
This event effectively killed reconstruction because many of the laws that were passed during reconstruction would no longer be enforced.
Compromise of 1877
BONUS
What was the compromise?