that the people who lived in a region should determine for themselves the nature of their government. In U.S. history, it was applied particularly to the idea that settlers of federal territorial lands should decide the terms under which they would join the Union, primarily applied to the status as free or slave.
What is Popular Soviereignty
100
It was the first major battle of the American Civil War. It was a Confederate victory followed by a disorganized retreat of the Union forces.
What is the Battle of Bull Run
100
"Four score and seven years ago"—
What is the Gettysburg Address
100
The term used for the time period after the Civil War
What is Reconstruction
100
This man took over after Lincoln's assassination
What is Andrew Johnson
200
was an enslaved African American man in the United States who unsuccessfully sued for his freedom
What is Dred Scott
200
An executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln on January 1, 1863. Gave federal legal status of more than 3 million enslaved persons in the designated areas of the South from "slave" to "free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation
200
The man who killed Abraham Lincoln
What is John Wilkes Booth
200
Were state and local laws enforcing racial segregation in the Southern United States
What is Jim Crow Laws
200
This killed more people then bullets
What is infection
300
consisted of the governments of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union in 1860-61
What is the Confederacy
300
Union General, later a President, that believed in the idea of total war
What is Ulysses S. Grant
300
Location of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia in the McLean House, Virginia signaled the end of the nation's largest war.
What is Appomattox Court House
300
Was a U.S. federal government agency established in 1865 to aid former slaves and poor white people
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
300
twisting the bars when hot. Officers should be instructed that bars simply bent may be used again, but if when red hot they are twisted out of line they cannot be used again. Pile the ties into shape for a bonfire, put the rails across and when red hot in the middle, let a man at each end twist the bar so that its surface becomes spiral.
What is Sherman's Neck ties
400
was the 16th President of the United States
What is Abraham Lincoln
400
Drafting, is the compulsory enlistment of people in a national service, most often a military service
What is Conscription
400
last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River
What is Vicksburg
400
The first organization sought to overthrow the Republican state governments in the South during the Reconstruction Era, especially by violence against African-American leaders
What is KKK
400
Addresses the equal protection and rights of former slaves. It also limits the action of state and local officials. In addition to equal protection under the law to all citizens, the amendment also addresses what is called "due process", which prevents citizens from being illegally deprived of life, liberty, or property.
What is 14th Amendment
500
the action of withdrawing formally from membership of a federation or body, especially a political state
What is secession
500
Was the first major battle in the American Civil War to take place on Union soil. It is the bloodiest single-day battle in American history, with a combined tally of dead, wounded, and missing at 22,717.[4]
What is Battle of Antietam
500
"Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.".
What is the 13th Amendment
500
prohibits the federal and state governments from denying a citizen the right to vote based on that citizen's "race, color, or previous condition of servitude."
What is the 15th Amendment
500
Along with a declaring martial law, President Abraham Lincoln ordered the suspension of the constitutionally protected right ?