Civil War
Abraham Lincoln suspended the right to a trial for those who protested the Civil War
What was habeas corpus?
Laws designed to enforce segregation of blacks from whites
What were Jim Crow laws?
Shawnee chief who tried to form a Native American confederation
Who was Tecumseh?
Four candidates ran for President in this year's election and Abraham Lincoln won
What was the election of 1860?
Main conductor of the Underground Railroad who made 19 trips to the south helping runaway slaves
Who was Harriett Tubman?
The first shots fired in what became the Civil War
What was Fort Sumter?
Amendment that abolishes and prohibits slavery
What is the 13th Amendment?
President who pushed Congress to pass the Indian Removal Act
Who was Andrew Jackson?
President who vetoed the Second Bank of the United States
Who was Andrew Jackson?
First women's rights convention in the United States
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
More railroads, more factories, and a much higher population
What were advantages of the North in the Civil War?
To bring the states that seceded back into the United States
What was Lincoln's main goal for Reconstruction?
March of the Cherokee which resulted in the death of as many as 4,000 Native Americans
What was the Trail of Tears?
Missouri was admitted as a slave state and Maine as a free state in this agreement
What was the Missouri Compromise?
Meeting of colonial delegates to discuss their resistance to the Coercive Acts
What was the First Continental Congress?
Civil War battle fought in Maryland and won by the Union which was the bloodiest single battle of the Civil War
What was the Battle of Antietam?
Author of the book Uncle Tom's Cabin which told of the abuses of slavery
Who was Harriet Beecher Stowe?
Seminole chief who resisted the attempts of the United States Army to take over their land
Who was Osceola?
Agreement in which Spain gave Florida to the United States
What was the Adams-Onis Treaty?
What invention made it easier to farm and raise larger crops in the Great Plains?
What was the steel tipped plow?
Name of the speech given to commend the efforts of the Union troops and to dedicate a Civil War cemetery AND the name of the President who gave it
What was the Gettysburg Address and who was President Lincoln?
Statement made by Lincoln that said the slaves were free
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Treaty that gave Seminoles a reservation near Ocala, Florida
What was the Treaty of Moultrie Creek?
Complete name of the Supreme court case regarding a slave who said he should be free because he once lived in a free territory
Dred Scott vs Sanford
Slave uprising where slaves killed 55 white people and made the south fear other uprisings
What was Nat Turner's Rebellion?