"The Middle" Compromise & Conflict
Both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were intended to settle disputes over THIS.
The Spread of Slavery
THIS radical abolitionist is most associated with Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harpers Ferry.
John Brown
The "spark" that officially began the US Civil War.
The Attack on Fort Sumter
Northerners (with very interesting bags made of a household textile floor covering) who migrated to make a living and profit in the devastated South.
Carpetbaggers
These restrictive laws were passed by Southern states in order to limit the freedoms of African American citizens and force them into cheap agricultural labor, prohibiting them from exercising the same civil rights as the white citizens.
The Black Codes
The Compromise of 1850 created a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, brought in California as a free state, and made THIS the determining factor whether a new state would be free or slave.
Popular Sovereignty
Supreme Court case that ruled that no African-American, enslaved or free, was a citizen and overturned the Missouri Compromise
Dred Scott v. Sandford
The bloodiest single day of the war, resulting from Robert E Lee's first attempt to go on the offensive
Battle of Antietam
The agency established by Congress to train teachers, build schools, and assist formerly enslaved people to adjust to their new live as free people
Freedman's Bureau
This Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.
13th Amendment
Both pro- and antislavery settlers rushed to THIS state and ended up in a violent conflict over the vote whether to make it a slave or free state.
Kansas
The Union General whose Atlanta Campaign and "March to the Sea" brought the South into ruin and broke the South's will to fight.
William T Sherman
Divided the South in two with the capture of the last Confederate stronghold along the Mississippi River
Battle of Vicksburg
Andrew Johnson's impeachment was based on Congress's accusation that he violated THIS policy when he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from his office.
Tenure of Office Act
Laws that enforced racial segregation and the disenfranchisement of Black Americans
Jim Crow laws
Westward Expansion and "Manifest Destiny" would further drive the nation into conflict that would ultimately lead to the Civil War. THIS was the big issue that became the point of contention.
Slavery
The first and ONLY president of the Confederate States of America
Jefferson Davis
The turning point of the war that left the Confederate Army crippled and unable to go on the offensive again
Battle of Gettysburg
THIS group wanted the South punished for treason, implemented martial law, and believed Freedmen’s rights should be granted by the U.S. government.
Radical Republicans
This court case made legal the idea of "separate but equal."
Plessy v. Ferguson
THIS event directly occurred as a result of the 1860 presidential election.
Southern Secession (starting with South Carolina)
Became the 17th president of the US when his predecessor was assassinated in Ford Theatre by a South sympathizing actor.
Andrew Johnson
The span of years in which the Civil War took place
1861-1865
His election, while HIGHLY controversial, led to the compromise that ended the Reconstruction Era.
Rutherford B Hayes
Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights of the freedmen decided by state governments...these became components of THIS agreement that ended Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877