Land north of the 36-30' parallel was closed to slavery while land south of this parallel remained open to slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
The first blood spilled in the Civil War was considered to happen during the spring of 1856.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
The Union military strategy during the Civil War.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crimes whereof the party share have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States or any place subject to their jurisdiction."
What is 13th Amendment?
100
Many former slaves were forced into this line of agrarian work once slavery was abolished.
What is sharecropping?
200
In this famous novel, the main character died as a martyr to slavery at the hands of an evil overseer.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
200
His election in 1860 was what finally convinced South Carolina to seceded from the Union.
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
200
When this city along the Mississippi River fell, the Confederacy was cut in half.
What is Vicksburg?
200
Became President after Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
200
During the Civil War and Reconstruction, it became the party of the south.
What is the Democratic Party?
300
The establishment of slavery in a state is left to the citizens of that state.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
California entered the Union as a free state and the Fugitive Slave Law was strengthened by this act of Congress.
What is Compromise of 1850?
300
The Union victory in this battle was necessary to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Battle of Antietam?
300
Granted citizenship to free blacks and former slaves.
What is 14th Amendment?
300
Organization attempted to return the South to its former way of life by enforcing Jim Crow Laws.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
Established popular sovereignty in the northern section of the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
400
Led a failed slave rebellion in Harper's Ferry, VA that scared southerners and pushed them closer to succession.
Who is John Brown?
400
Battle fought over a three day period that ended with Picket's Charge.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
400
Established that the right to vote should not be denied "on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment?
400
Northerners who moved south to help freed slaves or to take advantage of economic opportunities
Who are carpetbaggers?
500
Caned on the floor of the Senate for speaking out against slavery.
Who is Charles Sumner?
500
In this federal court case, the Supreme Court ruled that African Americans were not considered citizens and therefore could not sue in court.
What is the Dred Scott case?
500
With the issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation, the reason for fighting the Civil War changed to....
What is "the emancipation of slaves"?
500
This party controlled Congress during much of Reconstruction.