Compromises & Failures
This adds two states, one of them is Maine, in order to maintain the balance of slave and free states. It also sets a geographic line that slavery cannot spread past.
Missouri Compromise
The armies of the North and South started out with a strong base of volunteers, but by 1863 had to enstate this policy. It was unpopular.
Draft or conscription
This first battle of the Civil War was thought to be a quick, delightful affair. Civilians from both sides gathered on surrounding hills to watch with picnic baskets and blankets. It wasn't delightful.
Bull Run (Manassas)
Executive (presidential reconstruction)
This man was the architect of so many compromises, including the Missouri Compromise, and the failed compromise of 1850
Henry Clay
This Akron, Ohio man announced on ESPN that he would be "bringing his talents to South Beach" on July 8, 2010.
Lebron James
The Supreme Court rules that a slave is still a slave regardless of the laws of the state he is in with this landmark case. The case delegitimizes the Court for years afterwards.
Dred Scott V. Sanford
Border states, places controlled by the federal army.
Lincoln suspended this due to threats to overthrow the government from within during the Civil War.
Habeas corpus.
Radical republicans wanted 50% of a state's population to do this, Lincoln and Johnson were happy with 10%.
Swear an oath of loyalty
Born in a log cabin in Kentucky. He's honest. He's tall. He shared a bed with his best friend for years before he married the daughter of a plantation owner. He had to sneak into Washington DC in disguise.
Abraham Lincoln
This filthy insect has two brains (sort of) the second one might come in handy when it survives the nuclear apocalypse.
Cockroaches
It takes a North Carolina politician like James K. Polk to bring the country into war with this neighbor over the admittance of Texas as a state.
Mexico
Southern Democrats that opposed secession and war were known by this venomous snake's name.
Copperhead
The first shots of the war are fired here.
Fort Sumter, Charleston, South Carolina.
This group spreads terrorist violence to curb the rights of African Americans. U.S. Grant will destroy it in South Carolina during his presidency (unfortunately, they return).
Ku Klux Klan
George McClellan
It's not an alligator, it's not a crocodile, but you'd be forgiven for mistaking this South American amphibian for either one. There is a Caribbean island named after this animal. Banks on this island hide the riches of the world's elite businesses.
Cayman
This is the belief that United States has the right to control all the land between the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans.
This reached 7000% in the CSA.
Inflation
The South operated at a disadvantage throughout the war, their only hope was to wage this type of war, hoping to wear out the North until they quit.
Defensive war
States like Mississippi, Florida, and South Carolina vote Republican in the election of 1876 in part because of this.
Large African American voting populations.
Confederate general, loses his arm, then his life.
"Stonewall" Jackson
How many kids does Mr. Given have?
3
This passed the house but failed in the Senate, it would have banned slavery in any territory taken in the Mexican-American war.
Wilmot Proviso
While the government would go back on free land for recently freed slaves, in 1862, the Union gives free land to white citizens with this act. 93 million Americans are descendants of beneficiaries of this act.
Homestead Act
This man called slavery the "cornerstone of the Confederacy" during his inaugural address.
Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA
This man is the hard, unsmiling face of Radical or Congressional Reconstruction.
Thaddeus Stephens
Leads the Union on a "March to the Sea" from Chattanooga, TN to Savannah, GA.
William T. Sherman
This man wrote country music classics like "Your Cheating Heart" and "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry"
Hank Williams
Westward expansion in covered wagons along this passage stopped along points like Council Bluffs, Iowa and Independence, Missouri. Be careful, your oxen might get sick, or dysentery could wipe out your kids.
Oregon Trail
Lincoln is murdered in this many days after the end of the Civil War.
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Grants victory at this place, on the Mississippi River, turned the tide of the war, and catapulted Grant to lead the entire US Army, and eventually the presidency.
Vicksburg
Initially, the Freedman's Bureau, along with the army, was tasked with distributing this to freed slaves. William Sherman's field order 15 gave this. Andrew Johnson took this away. Be specific.
40 acres & a mule.
John Brown
This American president opened the most National Parks during his terms. He became known as the "conservation president."
Theodore Roosevelt