Sectionalism
What act made Maine a free state, Missouri a slave state and established the 36' 30' line?
Missouri Compromise of 1820
What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
What happened 5 days after the South surrendered that devastated the Northern states?
Assassination of Lincoln
What amendment gave protections under the Constitution and Bill of Rights to all African Americans?
14th Amendment
What amendment granted the right to vote to all African American men?
15th Amendment
What state seceded after Lincoln's election in 1860?
South Carolina
What battle split the Confederacy in two and gave control of the Mississippi River to the Union?
What plan of reconstruction was more intense and strict with the South?
Presidential Reconstruction
What were TWO advantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War?
knowledge of terrain, skilled generals
Name 5 presidents we have learned about this year...
Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, JQA, Jackson, Polk, Lincoln, Johnson
What are the 3 S's?
Slavery, Sectionalism, and States' Rights
What speech did Lincoln give that dedicated a battlefield to the fallen soldiers?
Gettysburg Address
What organization was formed to assist newly freedmen and women after the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments?
Freedman's Bureau
What is is called when a landowner allows a tenant to use the land in return for a share of the crops produced on that land?
Sharecropping
Radical Republicans
What court case determined that slaves were not citizens and could not be protected by the Constitution?
Dred Scott v Sanford
General Lee surrendered to General Grant at this location...
Appomattox Court House, VA
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
13th Amendment
Name 2 pieces of the Congressional Reconstruction Plan...
5 military districts, new state elections/leaders, adopting 14th and 15th Amendments, Ironclad oath
What was the Union's strategy called during the Civil War?
Anaconda Plan
What act led violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery groups in the territories?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Where did the first shots of the Civil War take place?
Fort Sumter
What group terrorized and murdered newly freedmen and women in order to prevent them from using their rights?
Ku Klux Klan, KKK
Name 3 units that we have covered this year...
Colonization- Reconstruction
What supreme court justice ruled over many of our court cases, like Worcester v Georgia and Gibbons v. Ogden?
John Marshall