The Underground Railroad
What is was the Underground Railroad?
The resistance to enslavement through escape
What big questions did the American Territories have to answer.
Whether to be free states or slave states.
Fort Sumter was where the 1st battle occurred in the civil war. How many Americans were killed there?
None.
Who was the 16th President of the United States?
Abraham Lincoln
Between 1865 and 1877, the federal government carried out a program to repair the damage to the South called. . .
Reconstruction
What is emancipation?
The act of becoming free
It was feared that too many slave states or free states would do what?
Disrupt the balance of power in government
The First Battle of Bull Run, Northern soldiers ended up running away in retreat because of what?
Railroad cars full of Southern troops coming the the battle.
Which political party did Abraham Lincoln belong too?
Republican party
Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan forgave everybody except?
Confederate military and government officials
Was the Underground Railroad legal in the U.S.
No. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 made it illegal.
The Kansas-Nebraska Act 1854 introduced popular sovereignty, which is?
Letting the people in a territory decide whether to allow slavery, rather then the government.
What technology was used during the Civil War?
The telegraph made communication fast, Railroads moved troops/supplies quickly, the ironclad warships dominated the waters.
During the Gettysburg Address, Lincoln stated, "Four score and seven years ago. . . ." What does that mean?
87 years (since the Revolutionary War)
One issue that occurred with Reconstruction was?
Resistance from Southern States, Political Conflict and Corruption, Economic Challenges,
Who was the leader of the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
One advantage Northern States had over Southern States was?
Bigger population, more railroad tracks, more factories, moral high ground (end slavery).
Why did The Northern States want to conquer Richmond?
It was the Capital of the Southern States.
Lincoln was assassinated by who?
John Wilkes Booth
What was the attitude of most African Americans at the end of the Civil War?
“Everybody went wild.”
Approximately how many enslaved people used the underground railroad.
100,000
Southern states had the advantage of fighting for what?
Preserving their way of life and the right to self-govern.
Who was the General in charge of the Southern Army?
General Lee
What was a result of the Civil War?
The end of slavery in the United States with the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
What was one issue that occurred after Reconstruction that had a strong effect on racial relationships?
The Jim Crow laws and Racial Segregation.