Antebellum Era
Causes of the Civil War
Civil War
Reconstruction
Misc.
100
This man led the Pottawattamie Massacre that resulted in the deaths of 5 pro-slavery settlers.
Who is "John Brown"?
100
The following figures share this common theme:
Harriet Tubman, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Beecher Stowe, the Grimke sisters
What is abolitionists?
100
This was the true purpose of Lincoln's Gettysburg Address, as satisfied by the 13th Amendment after the war.
What is a "new birth of freedom," committing to ending slavery in the U.S.
100
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!!!!!! (200 Pts)
This was a system where the landlord/planter allows a tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping or the crop lien system?
100
The belief that America had the God given right to possess all of the land between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
What is "Manifest Destiny"?
200
This cultural belief, largely supported by middle class white people, touted the moral and spiritual superiority of women.
What is the cult of domesticity?
200
This agreement on popular sovereignty ultimately caused the Sack of Lawrence & Caning of Charles Sumner.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
These Union soldiers were relegated to manual labor jobs, not allowed in leadership positions, and disproportionately fell ill during the war.
Who were Black soldiers?
200
This Supreme Court case decision upheld legal racial segregation, in train cars and all aspects of daily life.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
200
This immigrant group was often targeted by nativists and Know-Nothings due to their Catholic faith and large urban presence.
Who are the Irish?
300
This product encouraged the growth of the Lowell factory system in the North in the early 1800s.
What is Cotton or Textiles?
300
The term for when enslaved people in the south were moved to the new Southwest to expand cotton cultivation.
What is the Second Middle Passage?
300
Most immigrants before the Civil War settled in these regions of the U.S., leading to their conscription during the war.
What were the Midwest & Northeast (Northern cities)?
300
This Reconstructionist believed that the white southerners should remain in control of social power post-Reconstruction.
Who is "President Andrew Johnson"?
300
This man proposed the American System, which appeared to help Northern Industries at the expense of the South & West.
Who is Henry Clay?
400
This artistic and literary movement expressed a love of the American landscape and was related to European Romanticism.
What is Transcendentalism?
400
This was the "last straw" that led directly to the Secession of South Carolina and the other Southern States.
What is the 1860 election of Abraham Lincoln?
400
This Civil War era Act gave cheap land to settlers of the Great Plains if they improved it and lived there for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act of 1862?
400
This was a person from the northern states who went to the South after the Civil War to profit from the Reconstruction.
What is "A Carpetbagger"?
400
This is the Main Idea of the image.
What is "President Jackson's political actions were Unconstitutional"?
500
This was the concept that states could declare a federal law unconstitutional, famously attempted on the "Tariff of Abominations."
What is "Nullification?"
500
This Supreme Court case set the precedent that Black Americans were not considered citizens.
What was the Dred Scott case?
500
In 1863, the U.S. Government passed "this" to provide fresh manpower and a larger fighting force, and leading riots in places like New York.
What is "the Enrollment Act", "the Draft," or "National Conscription"?
500
These three individuals/groups had plans for Reconstruction.
Who are "Lincoln, Johnson, and the Radical Congressional Republicans"?
500
This was the reason many non-slaveholding White people in the South supported slavery.
What is to maintain the racial hierarchy?