This agreement allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state and Maine to enter the Union as a free state. (page 157)
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
This was the first big battle of the Civil War and took place in July, 1861 near a creek. (page 177)
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
100
After the Civil War, this group wanted stronger action to punish former Confederate leaders, and they wanted to make the South give African Americans the right to vote. (page 199)
What are Radical Republicans?
100
During the Civil War, this person became the leader of all the Union nurses. (page 185)
Who is Dorothea Dix?
200
Many northerners wanted to end slavery and were called this. (page 162)
What is an abolitionist?
200
This agreement said California would join the Union as a free state, the slave trade would be banned in Washington D.C., and Congress would pass the Fugitive Slave Law. (page 160)
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This was a strategy adopted by Union Leaders that was supposed to "squeeze" the Confederacy by blockading the southern ports, attacking along the Mississippi River, and capturing the capital at Richmond. (page 178)
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
This law was passed by Congress in March of 1866 and gave African Americans the same rights as white Americans. (page 200)
What is the Civil Rights Act?
200
These were passed in the South and in the North to make men serve in the military. (page 185)
What are conscription laws?
300
Soldiers who served in the Civil War were called this. (page 193)
What is a veteran?
300
A network of secret routes for enslaved African Americans to escape to freedom in the North or in Canada. (page 162)
What is the Underground Railroad?
300
This was the name of the first ironclad warship in the nation. (page 181)
What is the Virginia?
300
This change to the Constitution said that all people born in the United States were citizen, and that state governments could not take away the rights of any citizens. (page 201)
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
The number of African Americans who enlisted, or volunteered to serve in the Union Army. (page 187)
What is 180,000?
400
This time period started at the end of the Civil War and lasted 12 years. (page 198)
What is Reconstruction?
400
After hearing this case, the Supreme Court ruled that the law considered slaves property, and the owner could move anywhere and still own his property. (page 167)
What is the Dred Scott Case?
400
This was a written statement issued by President Lincoln in January of 1863 that said that all slaves in the Confederate states would be "forever free." (page 186)
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
These were designed to keep white and African American people separate. (page 210)
What are segregation or Jim Crow laws?
400
More soldiers were killed in this battle than at any other battle during the Civil War. (page 191)
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
During Reconstruction, Republican state governments in the South passed laws against this. (page 204)
What is segregation?
500
He led armed men in Kansas who murdered pro-slavery men and attacked a building that held army weapons in Harpers Ferry, Virginia. (page 168)
Who is John Brown?
500
This means the destruction of food, equipment, and anything else of use to soldiers and civilians. (page 190)
What is total war?
500
This was a way to keep African Americans from voting in the South. (page 210)
What is a poll tax?
500
General Sherman used this war fighting strategy during his infamous March through Georgia. (page 191)