Sectionalism
Important People 1
Important People 2
Reconstruction
Miscellaneous
100
When President Lincoln was elected, the south viewed it as a threat to their society and culture, even their lives. Many believed Lincoln was going to take away their slaves. The south now thought they had no choice but to do this.
What is Secession
100
In 1856, provoked by a bloody attack on Kansas settlers by “border ruffians,” this man led a raid at Pottawatomie where they hacked several pro-slavery inhabitants to death. This was known as "Bleeding Kansas."
Who is John Brown
100
Often ranked as one of the nation's greatest presidents, this man remains a tragic historical figure, gunned down by an assassin just days after winning the nation's bloodiest war. His surprising election in 1860 helped spark the war itself, when South Carolina seceded. His appearance at Gettysburg in 1863 and his Second Inaugural Address in 1865 provided two of his most revered speeches.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
100
This Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as punishment for a crime.
What is Amendment 13
100
The southern economy was based primarily on this because of their well suited climate and fertile soil. This also made Cotton the souths staple crop during the first half of the 19th century.
What is Agriculture
200
This person won the Election of 1860, becoming the first Republican president in the United States. His election is also considered the "Spark" of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln
200
A gifted slave whose name adorns the 19th century's most celebrated legal case, this man claimed his temporary residence in a free state, Illinois, entitled him to his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott
200
Regarded as the war's finest general, this man was a master of the organization of war. The country's most experienced general in 1861, he declined Lincoln's offer to head the Union Army, even though he opposed slavery. As head of the Confederate Army, he projected a deep sense of duty and honor.
Who is Robert E. Lee
200
This amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude".
What is the 15th Amendment
200
During the first half of the 19th century the norths economy became primarily this because they had the Natural Resources, Infrastructure, Technology, and Labor to do so.
What is Industrial
300
This persons obsession with ending slavery cast him as an abolitionist hero. He led a raid on the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia in hopes of creating a slave rebellion in the south. Captured by Robert E. Lee, he was tried and hanged for his actions. He became an abolitionist hero in the North and a villain in the South.
Who is John Brown
300
An escaped slave who became one of the best-known "conductors" on the Underground Railroad, this woman led over three hundred slaves to freedom in the decade before the war. Nicknamed the "General" for her tough discipline, she even threatened her followers with a loaded gun to keep them silent as they fled.
Who is Harriet Tubman
300
He rose from comparative obscurity to become general in chief of the Union Army late in the war, securing victory by exhausting the Confederates. In 1868, he became the youngest man yet elected to the U.S. presidency, serving two terms marred by scandal. His memoirs, completed only days before his death, are considered among the best of any written about the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
300
This group spread rapidly throughout the south in the 1860s. They terrorized African-Americans, white Republicans, and anyone who supported Reconstruction.
Who is the KKK
300
The following two states were admitted to the Union under the Missouri Compromise as an attempt to keep the balance of free and slave states equal.
What is Maine (Free) and Missouri (Slave)
400
In this landmark Supreme Court Case, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney ruled that African-Americans could not be U.S. citizens, thus they could not sue in federal court. Taney also ruled the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional because it banned slavery in the Western territories.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
400
This woman's popular novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, published a decade before the Civil War, helped change the way many Americans felt about slavery. She was seen as an abolitionist hero in the North and was accused of spreading falsehoods by southerners. Abraham Lincoln allegedly called her "the little lady who made this big war."
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
400
With the Assassination of Lincoln, the Presidency fell upon this Democrat of pronounced states' rights views. After Lincoln's death, he proceeded to generously reconstruct the former Confederate States while Congress was not in session in 1865. He pardoned all who would take an oath of allegiance. He was later impeached by the House of Reps in 1867, but was acquitted by the Senate.
Who is Andrew Johnson
400
This amendment addresses citizenship rights and equal protection of the laws, and was proposed in response to issues related to former slaves following the American Civil War.
What is the 14th Amendment
400
In 1854 to gain the southerners' support, Stephen Douglas proposed creating two territories in part of the disputed Western territory--Kansas and Nebraska--and repealing the Missouri Compromise line. The question of whether the territories would be slave or free would be left to the settlers to decide under this principle.
What is popular sovereignty
500
Divisions over slavery in the territory gained in the Mexican-American War was resolved by this agreement. It consisted of laws admitting California as a free state, creating Utah and New Mexico territories with the question of slavery in each to be determined by popular sovereignty, settling a Texas-New Mexico boundary dispute in the former's favor, ending the slave trade in Washington, D.C., and making it easier for southerners to recover fugitive slaves.
What is the Compromise of 1850
500
This man was an escaped slave who became a worldwide advocate of abolition and social justice. As a young man, he fled his Maryland plantation for the North and points overseas, earning enough from his autobiography to purchase his freedom. He pressed Lincoln to enlist blacks and pronounce emancipation. After the war, he held various government positions.
Who is Frederick Douglass
500
This man was the first and only president of the Confederacy. He left the U.S. Senate to help lead the secessionist states in 1861. But his political skills or lack thereof, made the new government's performance inconsistent and often fractious, and played a role in the South's eventual defeat.
Who is Jefferson Davis
500
After Johnson enacted his Reconstruction policies in 1865-1866, the Southern states created a series of restrictive laws,which were designed to restrict freed blacks’ activity and ensure their availability as a labor force now that slavery had been abolished.
What is the Black Codes
500
In the years following the end of Reconstruction in 1877, the South reestablished many of the provisions of the black codes in the form of these laws.
What is Jim Crow Laws
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