This vocabulary word means, "someone who dies for a great cause"
Martyr
100
What vocabulary word means, "A military person killed, wounded, or captured"?
Casualty
100
Who was the man who shot and killed Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
100
What vocabulary word means, "A fee people had to pay in order to vote"?
Poll Tax
200
This is "a selection of persons for military service"
Draft
200
What vocabulary word means, "intense loyalty to a particular region of the country"?
Sectionalism
200
What advantages did the Union have during the Civil War?
Larger population
More Industry
More Railroads
(Not better generals)
200
What was the group called that was "a secret society that used fear and violence to intimidate or deny rights to freed African Americans"?
Ku Klux Klan
200
What vocabulary word means, "The rebuilding of the economy and society of the South after the Civil War"?
Reconstruction
300
What is, "An armored naval vessel"?
Ironclad
300
Before the Civil War, what was the main goal of the Republican Party regarding slavery?
They wanted to stop the spread of slavery into the territories.
300
What document did Abraham Lincoln write that declared that "all slaves held within the Confederacy were now free"?
Emancipation Proclamation
300
These were laws throughout the South that kept blacks and whites separated in public places.
Jim Crow Laws
300
Why do we refer to the Civil War as America's "Bloodiest Conflict"?
Most American deaths in an American war/it happened entirely on American soil/it pitted brother against brother
400
This term means to "let the people of a territory decide if they wanted to be a Free or Slave state"
Popular Sovereignty
400
What vocabulary word means "to withdraw from the Union"?
Secession
400
What events led to the end of the Civil War?
"Sherman's March to the Sea" and the Burning of Richmond, Virginia (the Confederate capital)
400
How did the 14th and/or 15th Amendments affect the lives of freed African Americans?
14th Amendment = Citizenship if born in U.S.
15th Amendment = Right to vote for all men
400
What did white Southern Democrats create to limit voting for African Americans?
Poll Taxes, Grandfather Clauses, Literacy Tests
500
This means to pardon, or forgive, someone of an illegal act.
Amnesty
500
This Supreme Court case established that slavery was legal, stating that slaves were considered property and the government cannot take away people's property
the Dred Scott case
500
Which of following was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln, at a newly created cemetery, that reassured the American public that, "these men shall not have died in vain"?
the Gettysburg Address
500
This Supreme Court case established the idea of "separate but equal," upholding the separation of races so long as the facilities of both were similar to each other.
Plessy v. Ferguson
500
This was a government organization to help newly freed slaves giving them food, clothing, medicine, jobs and education.