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What was the name given to Kansas due to the violent conflicts between pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces?
Bleeding Kansas
What political party was formed after the Kansas-Nebraska Act violated the Missouri Compromise?
The Republican Party
Which Supreme Court Case said that slaves were not citizens and that Congress couldn't ban slavery in the territories (making the Missouri Compromise Unconstitutional)?
The Dred-Scott Decision
John Brown was known for
Raiding a federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry Virginia and taking part in Bleeding Kansas.
At the beginning of the Civil War, what did Lincoln say his reason for fighting was?
To restore the union (keep the country together)
What was the military plan used by the Union that was meant to cut off foreign supplies to the South?
The Anaconda Plan
Which medical service was founded by the women during the Civil War?
The Red Cross
Union states that had slavery and never seceded had to be dealt with carefully by Lincoln. What were these states known as?
Border states
What was the main Confederate strategy to win the war?
To simply outlast the Union military, defend their own territory, and try to get help from Europe
Name the military order that declared freedom for slaves held in Confederate territory:
The Emancipation Proclamation
The ideals of liberty and equality (from the Declaration of Independence)
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
A type of warfare that attempts to destroy civilian, military, and economic resources
Total War
What was the number one cause of death in the Civil War?
Disease/infection
Which amendment officially ended slavery in the US?
The 13th
Who Killed Abraham Lincoln
John Wilke's Booth
Name two terrorist groups that formed during Reconstruction to stop freedmen from having rights?
The Ku Klux Klan and White League
Birthright citizenship
The era of readmitting the South back into the Union is known as __________.
Reconstruction
What were the goals of Radical Republicans in Congress during Reconstruction?
To protect former slaves (freedmen) and ensure harsher punishment for the South.
Which President took office after Lincoln was killed? He was impeached and nearly removed from office.
Andrew Johnson
Name a reason Reconstruction ended:
--Southern violence against former slaves
--Northerners grew tired of supporting Reconstruction
--Radical Republicans began to die off
What was the nickname for segregation laws during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries?
Jim Crow Laws
Name two ways Southern states were able to prevent African-Americans from voting, despite the 15th Amendment being in effect.
Poll taxes (paying to vote) and literacy tests (reading tests)
In 1896 the Supreme Court ruled in Plessy v. Ferguson that segregation was constitutional under the "________ but equal" doctrine.
Separate