The movement to end slavery. This movement was supported by the North and opposed by the South.
What is abolition?
100
A tax on imports and exports. These created tension between the North and the South.
What is a tariff?
100
A document issued by Abraham Lincoln that freed the slaves in states that were in rebellion and changed the war from a war to preserve the union to a war to end slavery.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Plan to rebuild the Union by readmitting southern states who rebelled during the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction.
200
An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the Union as a slave state if Maine entered as a free state. This maintained balance of power in the Senate and delayed the Civil War.
What is Missouri Compromise?
200
A system in which people are treated as property and used as forced labor.
What is slavery?
200
Confederate sympathizer who opposed the abolition of slavery and assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
200
President Abraham Lincoln's plan to readmit the southern states which rebelled during the Civil War to the Union. It required that that voters from the Election of 1860 swear an oath of loyalty to the United States and agree to emancipation of slaves.
What is 10% Plan?
300
The idea that citizens in territories would vote to decide whether the territory would be admitted to the Union as a slave state or free state.
What is popular sovereignty?
300
An action which invalidates a law which is deemed unconstitutional. South Carolina used this as a response to the Tariff of 1832.
What is nullification?
300
An action used to stop goods and people from entering or exiting a location. The Union used their superior navy to stop the Confederate state's trade.
What is a blockade?
300
A general pardon or issuance of forgiveness for crimes previously committed.
What is the amnesty?
400
This resulted in the acquirement of new territories in the Southwest portion of America. Some territories gained were Texas, California, Arizona, and New Mexico.
What is the Mexican-American War?
400
The act of withdrawing from a federal union. An action used by the South after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860.
What is secession?
400
The Union victory which prevented the British from allying with the Confederacy and persuaded Lincoln to abolish slavery.
What is Antietam?
400
Changes to the constitution which banned slavery in the United States, gave former slaves citizenship, and gave former slaves the right to vote.
What are the Reconstruction Amendments? (Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments)
500
A law that required runaway slaves to be returned to their master.
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
500
New nation formed after the South seceded from the United States of America.
What is Confederate States of America?
500
A battle that is considered the turning point of the war. General Robert E. Lee and the Confederate Army was forced to retreat into Virginia by the Union Army. This battle resulted in the highest casualties in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
An agreement that ended the period of Reconstruction. Republican candidate Rutherford B. Hayes became President in return for the removal of federal troops from the South.