Compromise
Division
The Civil War
Reconstruction
Wild Card
100

This was a series of agreements, including California joining as a free state, and allowing new territories to use popular sovereignty to decide about slavery

The Compromise of 1850

100

Anti-immigrant attitudes and an opposition to new immigration characterized this philosophy/idea

Nativism

100

This side of the conflict hoped to use its advantage in total population, manufacturing, and an established Navy to end the war 

North / Union

100

A lenient approach was advocated for by this Republican president. If not for his assassination, he may have seen it carried out more successfully

Lincoln

100

This amendment provided the final abolishment of slavery in the United States

13th Amendment

200

The Compromise of 1850 included this act, which would capture and return more slaves to the South

Fugitive Slave Act

200

Economic divisions separated the North and South. The North's economy had grown increasingly dependent on this for its economic growth, which would prove helpful in the way

Manufacturing (or industry)
200

The Northern strategy centered on isolating and slowly strangling the south, and was appropriately named for a large reptile

Anaconda Plan

200

Lincoln was followed by this president, who as a Southern Democrat, proved even more lenient by issuing additional pardons and opposing major federal intervention in the South

Johnson

200

Despite the fact that the moon and stars existed during this era, we did not yet cover this race, much to Adam's continued frustration

The Space Race

300

Legislators hoped that popular sovereignty would lead to compromise in two present day states. Those state names were given to this act about that attempted compromise

Kansas and Nebraska Act

300
Many southerners held this philosophy, which argued that they were caring for and providing a better life for slaves

Southern Paternalism

300

After the victory at Antietam, Lincoln issued this, freeing slaves in the rebellious territories (though, practically, almost no slaves became free when it was issued)

Emancipation Proclamation

300

This alliterative group wanted a more aggressive reconstruction that would pursue a larger transformation of Southern Society, perhaps by developing manufacturing industries and disbanding the planter aristocracy

Radical Republicans

300

The Compromise of 1877 ensured this man would become president, in exchange for the removal of Federal troops from the South

Rutherford B. Hayes

400

After this court decision, individuals in the North had much less hope that their anti-slavery views could win out

Dred Scott Decision

400

Southerners feared this man's attack on Harper's Ferry was a prelude to larger violent uprisings against slavery

John Brown

400

DAILY DOUBLE

This Union general was willing to commit the troops necessary to take advantage of the North's numbers advantage. He led the victory at Vicksburg, and would later become president

400

The Constitution was amended to protect voting rights for blacks, citizenships rights across the country, and formally abolishing slavery, with these amendments

Reconstruction Amendments OR 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

400
Historians point to the 1st rise of this group, named by either three words or three letters, during reconstruction as part of a violent backlash to blacks receiving more rights in the South

Ku Klux Klan

500
Attempts at compromise led to a realignment in political parties, with the two major parties settling on these contemporary names

Republican & Democrat

500

One of Alexander Stephens' speech to the Confederate Legislature argued that slavery is the "natural and normal condition" for blacks, illustrating this ideological undercurrent 

Racism

500

Southerners were angry about this man's March to the Sea, when he destroyed railroads, storehouses, farms, and other Southern infrastructure

Sherman

500

White Southerners criticized supporters of reconstructing by using these two terms for newly arrived northerners and southerners who supported republicans

Carpetbaggers & Scalawags

500

To see Nativist ideas in film, we watched a one minute clip from this Martin Scorsese film, starring Daniel Day Lewis and Leonardo DiCaprio (with an appearance by Liam Neeson)

Gangs of New York

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