Who's who?
Name the 16th President of the United States who was elected in 1860 and would lead the USA during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
In this event, Abraham Lincoln would win to become the first Republican President. Shortly after its certification, South Carolina seceded from the Union.
Election of 1860
This was the effort to rebuild the U.S. following the Civil War.
Reconstruction
What was the date the United States declared its independence.
July 4, 1776
When did the Civil War occur?
_____ - _____
1861 - 1865
Name the fiery abolitionist who believed that violence was the solution to end slavery. He would lead the Pottawattomie Massacre & raid on Harpers Ferry, and would be hanged for treason in 1859.
John Brown
This was the bloodiest single day battle in US History, with ~23,000 total casualties. Taking place in Maryland and resulting in a Confederate retreat, Lincoln would then issue the initial Emancipation Proclamation.
Antietam
What is abolition?
The movement to abolish, or make slavery illegal
What is Nationalism?
Pride and Loyalty towards one's nation
Passed in 1850, name the law that provided for the capture and return of runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another or into a federal territory.
Fugitive Slave Act
Name the Commander of the U.S. army by the end of the Civil War. He was a proponent of total war doctrine.
Ulysses S. Grant
Gettysburg Address
Name the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union.
Secession
What is a reform?
An effort to make changes, in order to improve something
Name the event that occurred after the passage of Kansas-Nebraska Act, when violence broke out from 1855-1859 over slavery & its expansion into the territories.
Bleeding Kansas
Name the man that sues for his freedom in the Supreme Court, but is ultimately dismissed due to his status as a slave.
Dred Scott (Dred Scott v. Sanford 1857)
In this major compromise 10 years before the start of the Civil War, Senator Henry Clay brokered a deal he hoped with solve future political issues of slavery when a debate broke out over California's request for statehood.
Compromise of 1850
Name the idea that supported citizens of a territory voting to decide whether to allow slavery in the state government. It was used in the 1850s.
Popular sovereignty
Explain one of the three Reconstruction amendments.
13th Amendment = Ends slavery in the USA
14th Amendment = All people born/naturalized are citizens, and have access to “due process” under the law
15th Amendment = Expands access to voting in the USA
Instigated by President James K. Polk, the __________ - __________ war brought new territory into the United States. This land would eventually become states such as California, New Mexico, Arizona, Utah.
Mexican-American War
This white abolitionist & editor from Massachusetts started his own newspaper, The Liberator, to promote immediate emancipation, or freeing of slaves, with no payment to slaveholders.
William Lloyd Garrison
This event was a broad Protestant religious movement that swept the USA. It started around 1790s, hits its peak 1820s-1830s, and promoted individualism & self responsibility. It would also lead to many of the social reform movements of the 1800s.
Second Great Awakening
Name the US strategy during the Civil War. The U.S. wanted to preserve the union, force the CSA to surrender by cutting them off from all outside support.
The Anaconda Plan
Name one event that led to the Civil War.
There are many. Some options:
The Fugitive Slave Act
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Bleeding Kansas
The Caning of Sumner
Dred Scott Decision
Lincoln-Douglas Debates
John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
The Election of 1860
Why is Reconstruction considered a failure?
Despite MASSIVE amounts of positive changes for former slaves, by the end of the Reconstruction period, former Confederates will be reinstated in local positions of power in the South. They will effectively implement laws that bring back systems similar to slavery.