Pre-Civil War
These states allowed slavery until it was abolished at the end of the Civil War. (use cardinal directions in your answer)
What is Southern states?
This is the name of the country briefly formed by the seceding southern states in the United States.
What is the Confederate States of America / the Confederacy?
This is the name given to the time period after the Civil War, lasting from 1865-1876.
What is Reconstruction?
This was the group of people the Ku Klux Klan was against.
What is people of color?
This Republican candidate won the 1860 presidential election.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the name of Abraham Lincoln's vice president, who became president after Lincoln's assassination and was impeached during his time in office.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This 1820 compromise declared that no slave states could be added to the United States above the latitude 36o30'.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Name two of the ways women were involved in the Civil War.
What is spies, soldiers, medical care, holding down the home front?
Name two of the major groups of new voters in the American south after the Civil War.
Who are freed slaves, scalawags, and carpetbaggers?
Harriet Beecher Stowe described the cruelties of slavery in this best-selling book.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This was the strategy used by William Tecumseh Sherman in his famous "March to the Sea," when his troops burned and destroyed everything of value in their path.
What is total war?
These laws essentially legalized racial segregation of blacks and whites in southern states even after the passage of the 15th amendment.
What are Jim Crow laws / black codes?
This 1854 piece of legislation declared that the two newest US states would decide to be slave states or free states based on popular sovereignty, or popular vote.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This famous 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln freed all slaves in the Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This 1865 federal agency was formed to help and protect the 4 million newly freed Black Americans as they transitioned out of enslavement.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?