Apushpourri
This law, strengthened by the Compromise of 1850, greatly angered northerners
Fugitive Slave Law
Conflict over slavery focused primarily on its existence in these areas
New/acquired territories
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
Election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
Nicknames for white southerners and northerners who supported Republican efforts in the South
Scalawags - Southerners ; Carpetbaggers - Northerners
The Civil War conflict began with the Confederacy taking control of THIS.
Fort Sumter
The fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South (hint: Harper's Ferry)
John Brown
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
Popular sovereignty
Name the strategies that effectively stifled Southern resources and destroyed infrastructure
Anaconda Plan and Sherman's March
Phase of Reconstruction including the Civil Rights Bill of 1866 and Reconstruction Act of 1867
Congressional/Radical Reconstruction
What years did the Civil War span?
1861-1865
Name the novel (1852) and its author that was banned in the south prior to the Civil War due to its pro-abolitionist views and stirring of debates over slavery.
Uncle Tom's Cabin - Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Supreme Court opinion that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
Dred Scott
The northern AND western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
Battles of Gettysburg and Vicksburg
The system resulting from the mutual need for workers and land, ultimately leading to economic dependency
Sharecropping
Why were so many Union generals relieved of their duties (by Lincoln) early in the Civil War?
He felt they were too cautious and hesitant
The Lincoln-Douglas Debates angered Southern Democrats because...
Douglas tried to defend popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska
Describe 4 of 5 elements of Clay's Compromise of 1850
Which Civil War event makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare?
The Draft Riots in NYC
Describe the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
13 - Abolish slavery, 14 - guaranteed citizenship, 15 - granted voting rights
This famous abolitionist and author of The Liberator Newspaper also founded the American Anti-Slavery Society
William Lloyd Garrison
Name 2 reasons used by Southerners to defend slavery as a positive good
The Bible, racial inferiority, and industrial comparisons
Three major events caused by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Bloody Kansas, the caning of Charles Sumner, and the formation of the Republican Party
Explain ONE purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation.
Discouraging foreign assistance, causing unrest in the South, and changing the focus of the war
Three pieces of evidence supporting the claim that Reconstruction was a time of conflict over new definitions of citizenship
What is the Slaughterhouse cases, Black Codes, the Ku Klux Klan, the Colfax massacre, the White League, the split in the Women's Rights movement, Hiram Revels