Causes of the Civil War
Refers to loyalty to a region over the whole country (regional over national interests), often causing conflicts and divisions.
Sectionalism
What invention is credited with the expansion and increasing reliance on slavery in the 1800s?
1. Cotton Gin
Name 1 of the 2 famous Confederate Generals we discussed in class. (FIRST AND LAST, nickname is okay)
- Robert E. Lee
- Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Union strategy to divide the South and control the Miss. River to win the war.
Anaconda Plan
Provided support (education, medical care) to former slaves, poor whites, and American Indians
Freedman's Bureau
1. Reformers that were passionate about ending slavery in our country.
2. Name one.
1. Abolitionists
2. Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Grimke Sisters, Hariett Tubman, John Brown etc.
List two results or effects from the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
- Bleeding Kansas (failure of pop. sov.)
- Brooks-Sumner Affair
- Republican Party formed
1. Slave States that stayed loyal to the union, preventing valuable resources from going to the Confederacy.
2. Constitutional protection that was suspended by Lincoln. It requires officers to present detained individuals before a court.
1. Border States
2. (Writ of) Habeaus Corpus
Union Generals
1. Led the "March to the Sea" to crush the will of the South and help get Lincoln reelected.
2. Participated in key battles like Vicksburg until he was promoted to lead the Union forces. Leader that ended the war an accepted Lee's surrender.
1. William Sherman
2. Ulysses S. Grant
1. What Reconstruction Plan favored leniency towards the Confederates?
2. What political party disagreed
1. Presidential (as compared to Congressional)
2. (Radical) Republicans
1. The belief that the US was destined by God to spread across North America, which served as justification for expansionism at the time.
2. Which President (last name) do we associate with this process?
3. Provide an example of how he achieved this via place annexed (acquired) or a dispute
1. Manifest Destiny
2. James K. Polk
3. Oregon (54-40 or Fight), Annexation of Texas, and War with Mexico (California and the American SW)
1. First state that seceded from the Union
2. What new "country" these states form?
3. Who was the President? FIRST AND LAST NAME
1. South Carolina
2. Confederate States of America
3. Jefferson Davis
1. List 2 resource advantages of the Union
2. List 1 advantage of the Confederates
1. Population, RR miles (infrastructure), more factories/industrial production, Immigrants, telegraph/communication, food production.
2. Cotton, military leadership, and early moral advantage
Which Presidential election ended Reconstruction
1876, Compromise of 1877
1. Lincoln's VP who became President in 1865 (1st and last)
2. His political party
3. What law did he violate that led to his impeachment proceedings
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Democrat
3. Tenure of Office Act
1. Law in 1820 that admitted a slave and free state into the country and limited the future expansion of slavery (in Lou. Territory) geographically.
2. Admitted California as a free state, allowed some territories to vote of slavery, created a new fugitive slave law, and ended the slave trade in DC.
3. Reversed #1 by allowing remaining territories in that area vote on slavery.
4. The notion that people of a given territory should decide whether to allow slavery.
1. Missouri Compromise
2. Compromise of 1850
3. Kansas-Nebraska Act
4. Popular Sovereignty
Lincoln's Actions/Speeches
1. War measure that freed slaves in rebelling areas, enlarging the purpose of the war.
2. Speech that was given at the dedication of a national cemetery that connected the end of slavery to the war's goals and our foundational beliefs as a nation.
3. Speech that gave a message of healing and reconciliation after the war, but insisted that the war wouldn't end unit the jobs (union and end of slavery) were done.
1. Emancipation Proclamation
2. Gettysburg Address
3. 2nd Inaugural Address
1. Set of segregation laws that dominate the South from the 1870s to the 1960s
2. Legal organization that fights to secure and protect rights for AA
3. Supreme Court case that legalized the segregation laws, "separate vs equal"
1. Jim Crow
2. NAACP
3. Plessy v. Fergueson
1. What are the Reconstruction Amendments
2. What is the phrase we used in class to remember what they did
1. 13th, 14th and 15th
2. FREE CITIZENS VOTE
1. Written by Stowe, this anti-slavery novel portrayed the horrors of slavery.
2. The Supreme Court case that said black people had no rights and that Congress and states couldn't write laws about where slavery could(n't) exist.
3. Mini Civil War that erupted in a Midwestern state over slavery.
4. Man charged w/ treason and executed after the failed Raid on Harper's Ferry (FIRST AND LAST NAME)
5. His election led to secession (LAST NAME) and what YEAR?
1. Uncle Tom's Cabin
2. Scott v. Sanford
3. Bleeding Kansas
4. John Brown
5. Lincoln, 1860
Battles (DONT WRITE "BATTLE OF")
1. 1st Battle of the Civil War.
2. Bloodiest single day of the war.
3. Bloodiest battle of the war, last CSA attempt to invade the North.
4. Gave the Union control of the Miss. River
5. Southern city attacked in 1864 due to its importance as a transportation hub.
1. Fort Sumter
2. Antietam
3. Gettysburg
4. Vicksburg
5. Atlanta
1. Laws that replaced Slave Codes and restricted AA freedom and equality after the war.
2. Famous group that used violence and intimidation to preserve the culture they wanted (abbreviation is ok)
3. Required voters to pay a fee to participate in the election.
4. Required passage of an assessment to be able to vote
1. Black Codes
2. KKK
3. Poll Taxes
4. Literacy Test