Lead Up to the Civil War
This is the Representative from Kentucky who was the main author of the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850.
Who is Henry Clay?
This region had the majority of the railroads and resources during the Civil War.
What is the North?
This amendment stated that slavery was no longer legal in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This political party worked to support the rights of Black Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Republican Party?
Republican President who won the Election of 1860 which led to the secession of the first 7 states of the Confederacy.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was the free state added to the Union to balance Missouri being added as a slave state.
What is Maine?
This was the expressed goal for President Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War.
What was to preserve/save the Union?
Give at least 2 of the main ways that the South tried to suppress the voting rights of Black Americans during Reconstruction.
What are:
- Poll Taxes
- Violence at the voting polls
- Grandfather Clause
- Literacy Test
This referred to the occupation where Black men and women (as well as poor White men and women) worked on a farm but were paid by allowing to live there and work. This was similar to slavery in many ways.
What is sharecropping?
This abolitionist used violence both in Kansas and at Harpers' Ferry in support for his anti-slavery views.
Who is John Brown?
This Supreme Court ruling declared that slaves were not citizens of the United States and therefore could not sue the government and the federal government could not rule on the issue of slavery.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This was where the first firing of the Civil War took place.
What is Fort Sumter?
This amendment stated that you could not discriminate against people's voting rights based on their race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the name given to the era of segregation and racial discrimination following the end of Reconstruction.
What is the "Jim Crow Era?"
Famous abolitionist who was a former slave, wrote an autobiography on his time as a slave, and had famous speeches such as "What is the Fourth of July to a Slave?"
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This law stated that western territories above the Missouri Compromise line could determine for themselves if they would or would not have slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This war measure went into effect on January 1, 1863 and stated that the slaves in the Confederate states were "hereby and forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This organization was founded to support education, jobs, and the ownership of property for Black Americans in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This is the name of the deal struck that led to the withdrawal of the federal troops from the South and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This was the President following Abraham Lincoln who handled Reconstruction poorly by defunding the Freedmen's Bureau and obstructing Congress's ability to protect Black Americans in the South. Eventually, he was impeached for breaking the law according to the Office of Tenure Act (1867).
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This was the nickname given to the conflicts that were sparked in Kansas following the passing of "popular sovereignty" there.
What is "Bleeding Kansas?"
This battle occurred after Confederate general Robert E. Lee invaded Pennsylvania. Lee was defeated by George Meade who forced Lee to retreat from the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This was a term used to refer to a white southerner who supported the Republican Party in the South.
What is a "Scalawag?"
What are the three states where the electoral votes were disputed in the Election of 1876.
What is Florida, Louisiana, and South Carolina?
This President was responsible for enforcing the Ku Klux Klan Act that largely destroyed the organization in the South.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?