The Civil War
You Define
I Define
Which One of These?
Reconstruction
100
Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln
Who are the Presidents of the South and the North during the Civil War?
100
Missouri Compromise
A compromise between pro-slavery and anti-slavery populations that prohibited slavery north of the 36th parallel (Missouri's southern border).
100
"Little old lady who started the Civil War"
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
Vicksburg - Gettysburg - Normandy
Normandy (Normandy was a battle during WWII)
100
General amnesty to all who swore an oath of loyalty to the United States, 10% plan, did not want to punish the South
What is Lincoln's Plan for reconstruction?
200
What years did the Civil War take place?
1861-1865
200
Abolitionist
A person against slavery.
200
Private citizens could be imprisoned for helping a "runaway slave"
What are the Fugitive Slave Acts?
200
Speech - Secondary Source - History Textbook
Speech (Whereas a history textbook is a secondary source, a speech is a primary source)
200
States MUST ratify the 13th Amendment, did not care for the progress of African Americans, vetoed much of Congress' Reconstruction Bills.
President Johnson's plan for reconstruction
300
Why did South Carolina secede from the Union?
South Carolina seceded from the Union in December of 1860 due to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President. Because not a single southern electoral vote went to Lincoln in the election, South Carolina (and the rest of the Southern states) felt they had no say in the Federal Government and thus, left the nation.
300
Bleeding-Kansas
Violent conflicts surrounding whether or not Kansas would enter the Union as a free-state or a slave state after the Kansas-Nebraska Act gave the territory popular sovereignty.
300
A secret aid to escaping slaves that was provided by abolitionists in the years before the American Civil War.
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
Advantages of the South - Industrialization - Population
Advantages of the South (Industrialization and Population were advantages of the North).
300
Freedmen's Bureau, Punitive Measures for Southern States and Representatives, Banned Confederate Soldiers from Congress, 14th and 15th Amendments.
Radical Republican plan for reconstruction.
400
What is the significance of the Battle at Antietam?
It provided President Lincoln the victory he needed to make his Emancipation Proclamation.
400
Dred Scott v. Sandford
Often lauded as the worst decision in Supreme Court history, the significance of the Dred Scott v. Sandford ruling is that slaves were the property of their owners and had no rights to sue or become citizens.
400
Undid the Missouri Compromise and added California as a free-state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
10% Plan - Lincoln - Johnson
Johnson (the 10% plan is part of Lincoln's plan for reconstruction)
400
List two successes and two failures of Reconstruction
Possible Answers: Successes: Public Schooling and the 14th Amendment; Failures: Women's Suffrage and Segregation.
500
Why was Vicksburg considered the turning point of the war in the West? Why was Gettysburg considered the turning point of the war in the East?
The victory in Vicksburg is considered the final step in the realization of the Anaconda Plan. It effectively split the South in to two halves. Gettysburg was and still is the bloodiest and costliest battle ever fought on American soil. The battle sends General Lee back to Richmond and the South never again attempts to invade the North.
500
Personal Liberty Laws
Personal Liberty Laws were laws passed by several states to counter the Fugitive Slave Acts. This law made it a crime to aid in the capturing and and returning of a runaway slave.
500
The location of the first battle of the Civil War and who won it?
What is Ft. Sumter and the Confederacy?
500
John Brown - Pacifism - Abolitionist
Pacifism (John Brown is an abolitionist famous for his violent tactics)
500
Cause and Effect Relationship: 14th Amendment, KKK, and the Enforcement Acts.
14th Amendment gives African Americans the right to vote -> resistance among those against liberty and freedom for African Americans -> KKK -> killing and terrorizing of those who support the right to vote -> Enforcement Acts which make it a crime to interfere with an individuals right to vote.
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