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Civil War
Reconstruction
100

Lee's surrender here marks the end of the Civil War

What is the Appomattox Courthouse? 

100
Bestselling book that fueled hatred for slavery in the North
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
Included California's admission as a free state and a strict fugitive slave
What is the Compromise of 1850?
100
The event most directly linked to the secession of the Southern states
What is the election of 1860 -or- the election of Lincoln
100
Those who believed that blacks should be granted rights and Southerners deserved punishment
Who are Radical Republicans?
200

Declaration by Lincoln in 1863 that freed slaves in "rebellious" states

What is the Emancipation Proclamation

200

His beating by Brooks further emotionalized the slavery issue in the 1850s

Who is John Brown?

200
The idea that residents should vote to decide the question of slavery
What is popular sovereignty?
200
The early Union strategy that attempted to starve the South into submission
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200

The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship, granted voting rights?

300

This bill was passed by radical republicans in Congress during Reconstruction that required over 50% of citizens in the Southern states to take loyalty oaths in order for the states to be readmitted to the union.

What is the Wade-Davis bill?

300

Political party founded out of a hatred of immigrants. 

What is the Know-Nothing Party?

300
The Supreme Court case that excluded African-Americans from citizenship rights in the United States
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
300
The Northern and Western victories that turned the tide of the war for the Union
What is Gettysburg and Vicksburg?
300
Economic system that emerges in the South after the Civil War
What is sharecropping?
400

Name the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments

What is abolish slavery, guaranteed citizenship (equal protection under the law), and suffrage to blacks?

400

One of the most famous underground railroad workers

Who is Harriet Tubman?

400
Political Party created as a result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is the Republican Party?
400

An event where people protested Lincoln's conscription laws (making people serve in the army); required Lincoln to divert 4,000 troops from Gettysburg to quash it. The event makes evident the continuity of economic inequality and class warfare

What are the Draft Riots in NYC?

400

Group of people who primarily went to the South to try to create an industrial society in line with the North

Who are carpetbaggers?

500

This bill was a failed 1846 proposal to outlaw slavery in any territory acquired in the Mexican-American War.

What is the Wilmont Proviso?

500

Name the fiery abolitionist who died a martyr in the North and a murderer in the South AND name 1 of the 2 events he carried out

Who is John Brown and what is the Pottawatomie Massacre OR the Raid of Harper's Ferry

500

The two major components of the Compromise of 1877

What are: 1. Hayes (Republican) becomes President 2. End of military districts / Home Rule est.

500

Name 3 reasons that contributed to the North winning the Civil War.

Industrial powerhouse (produce more weapons, ammunition, etc.), larger population, moral cause, convinced Europe to stay out of the war, leaders were able to carry out national policies more effectively

500

Name 2 successes and 2 failures of Reconstruction

Successes: Freedman's Bureau effective at alleviating short-term suffering; African American elected to political offices; greater infrastructure being built in South

Failures: Black codes, rise of the KKK, military presence left too early in South leading return to white supremacist rule, shady politicians/finances, etc.