People
Led a group of slaves that Killed about 60 whites in Hampton, Virginia.
What is Nat Turner
Belief that the United States was granted by God the will and the right to settle the rest of North America.
What is Manifest Destiny
Various laws and rules put into place by white southerners to regain control over black citizens after the Civil War.
What is Black Codes
Granted citizenship to all former slaves.
What is 14th Amendment
Opening engagement of the Civil War. It was bombed by confederate soldiers for two days until Union troops surrendered.
What is Fort Sumter
This man was a militant abolitionist, and became editor of the Boston publication, The Liberator, in 1831.
Who is William Lloyd Garrison
A euphemism for slavery and the economic ramifications of it in the South. The term aimed to get rid of the contradiction of legalized slavery in a country whose Declaration of Independence states that, "all men are created equal." It was one of the key causes of the Civil War…. Formed in 1854 by a coalition of the Free soil, Know Nothing, Renegade Whig parties. It was a liberal, anti-slavery party.
What is Peculiar institution What is Republican Party
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom after living in a northern portion of the United States for four years. He claimed that this made him and free man. The federal court decided that he wasn't allowed to sue because he was federal property, not a citizen…. After the U.S. signed the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, they realized they had left out portions of the southwest stagecoach routes to California. James Gadson the U.S. Minister to Mexico was called to draw up a treaty that would purchase these territories from Mexico in order to build a southern continental railroad. This territory makes up Parts of Arizona and New Mexico.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
What is Gadsden Purchase
Abolished slavery, and involuntary servitude.
What is 13th Amendment
September 17th 1862, this battle ended the first confederate invasion into the north and gave Abraham Lincoln the will to pass the emancipation proclamation.
What is Battle of Antietam
A self-educated slave who escaped in 1838, and became the best-known abolitionist speaker.
Who is Frederick Douglass
The South was governed by a select few rich people who were the head of southern society. They determined the political, economic, and social life of their region. The wealthiest had homes in towns as well as summer homes, they traveled widely, and children got good education. These people were defined as the cotton magnates, the sugar, rice, and tobacco, the whites who owned at least 40 or 50 slaves and 800 or more acres.... She wrote the abolitionist book, Uncle Tom's Cabin. It was the Book that helped to crystallize the rift between the North and South. It has been called the greatest American propaganda novel ever written, and helped to bring about the Civil War.
What is Planter aristocracy What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin
The battle was a Union victory and was the confederacy's last attempted invasion on the North. This was a turning point for the North.
What is Battle of Gettysburg
Confederate leader who was crucial in many Confederate victories (Commander) …. A Democratic Southerner from Tennessee elected as vice president under Abraham Lincoln. After Lincoln was assassinated, he became president. He opposed radical republicans and was the first president who was almost impeached.
What is Robert E. Lee
What is Andrew Johnson
With a Union victory in this battle, the Union troops took control of the Mississippi river which split the south in half. This was a major tactical victory for the North.
What is Siege at Vicksburg
The Unions most competent General. He became a war hero during the civil war and eventually became President of the United States…. An actor who planned to abduct President Lincoln at the start of the war. When his plan failed, he proceeded to shoot Lincoln at Fords theatre.
What is Ulysses S. Grant
What is John Wilkes Booth