Westward Movement
The 36°30′ imaginary line that indicated that all states admitted above this line became free states, while below this line, they became slave states, except for Missouri.
What is Missouri Compromise of 1820?
This was an influential novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that stressed the moral evil of slavery and a key event that led to the Civil War.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
The first shots of the Civil War were here.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter (1861)?
The notification that Lincoln proclaimed about the Confederate slaves during the Civil War, ultimately releasing all slaves from slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
During Reconstruction, this person favored the "10% Plan."
Who is Lincoln?
The term applied to the era of expansionist policies of the United States during the westward movement of the country from the Atlantic to the Pacific coast.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was a law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
People watched this battle outside of Washington D.C. in Virginia, where the Union retreated conceding a Confederate victory and showing that this would be a long, bloody war.
What is Battle of Bull Run?
This was the General who "Marched to the Sea" and devastated property and frightened Georgian civilians.
Who is General Sherman?
This amendment was passed by Congress stating that no one could be kept from voting because of “race, color or previous servitude.”
What is the 15th Amendment?
These were the gold prospectors that rushed to California in the mid 1800s.
Who are the 49ers?
A law that advocated for popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories where the people would vote on whether they would become a slave or free state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
The union succeeded in halting Lee's Confederate forces and claiming victory in Maryland.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He was the Commander of the Confederate Army.
Who was General Robert E. Lee?
A group formed by disgruntled Confederate soldiers, whose goals included destroying the Republican Party, aiding the planter class and preventing African Americans from integrating into society.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan?
This is the compromise that admitted California as a free state.
What is Compromise of 1850?
A supreme court case decision that slaves would remain slaves in non-slave states and slaves could not sue because they were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sanford case?
Largest and bloodiest battle of the Civil War resulting in a Union victory and considered to be the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The place where General Lee surrendered to General Grant to mark the end of the Civil War.
These were men and women who wanted to get rid of slavery.
Who are abolitionists?
This was the state that was admitted to the United States in 1850.
What is California?
A sectional crisis during the presidency of Andrew Jackson, which was an attempt by the state of South Carolina to cancel out a federal law - the tariff of 1828 - passed by the United States Congress.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy splits in two and Grant takes lead of Union armies.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This is where Lincoln was assassinated and the person who assassinated him.
Where is Ford's Theater and John Wilkes Booth?
This was the year Lincoln was elected President.
What is 1860?