Antebellum
Causes of the Civil War
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Vocabulary
100
Any white male head of the family could recieve up to 1,000 acres of land.
What is headright system?
100
Caused the main conflict between the North and South.
What is Slavery?
100
When Union ship prevented exports and imports from other countries to the south.
What is blockade?
100
all people born in the United States are considered citizens.
What is the 14th amendment?
100
Created Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
200
Created a syllabary system for english settlers and Native Americans.
Who is Sequoyah?
200
When a state left the Union.
What is secession?
200
The bloodiest single day battle of the war.
What is the battle of Antietam?
200
This Confederate prison held the most Union soldiers.
What is Andersonville prison?
200
Capturing the Mississippi River and cutting off Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas
What is the Anaconda Plan?
300
Native American Chief who signed the Treaty of New York.
Who is Alexander McGillivray?
300
The Supreme Court said that slaves could not sue in court because they are not citizens.
What is Dred Scott Act?
300
Sherman and his troops burned Georgia from Atlanta to Savannah.
What is March to the sea?
300
Farmers could pay land owners with crops.
What is sharecropping?
300
Maine would enter the Union as a free state and Missouri would enter the Union as a slave state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
400
The trip taken by Native Americans after they were forced out of their land.
What is Trail of Tears?
400
When a state ignores federal law.
What is Nullification?
400
Fought near the railroad center of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
What is the Battle of Chickamauga?
400
A group of people that were against the freedom of African-Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
People of the territory could decide whether to be a slave state or free state.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
500
The government were able to buy an acre for 1.5 cents. Eventually lead to Georgia selling Alabama and Mississppi for 1.5 million.
What is Yazoo Land Fraud?
500
When a state Believes that state's interest should take precedence over the interest of federal law.
What is States rights?
500
This battle in Pennsylvania had the most casualties and deaths of the civil war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
A document that stated African-American men had the right to vote.
What is the 15th amendment?
500
A document that freed all slaves in the southern states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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