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Civil War
100
Escaped slave who returned to the South many times to help runaway slaves escape North to Canda on the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
100
slave preacher who wanted revenge against Southern plantation owners; led revolt in Virgina killing 47 whites
Who is Nat Turner?
100
After no Presidential candidate got enough votes to win the election of 1876, Southern states offered to cast their votes for Rutherford B. Hayes if they agreed to some terms
What is the Compromise of 1877?
100
Said that if a state did not agree with a federal law, it could ignore it.
What is nullification?
100
another name for the American Civil War
What is the War Between the States?
200
A slave who sued to get his freedom when his master took him into a Free Territory to live.
Who is Dred Scott?
200
It stated that areas of rebellion would be free but freed no slave at the time it was given
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
Laws passed in southern states which required Blacks to use separate public facilities
What is Jim Crow Laws?
200
Laws passed in Southern states to regulate the activities of former slaves after the Civil War. They restricted Blacks' rights to marry, own property, to hold or chagnge jobs, to use public places, and to serve on juries.
What is the Black Codes?
200
the immediate cause or spark of the Civil War
What was the firing upon Fort Sumter by Southern troops?
300
assassinated President Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
Named because of the violence that erupted after rival abolitionist and pro-slavery legislatures were elected and armed gangs killed over 200 people
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300
Passed by Radical Republicans in congress to stop those proposed by President Lincoln and President Johnson. It was harsh and intended to punish the south for starting the Civil War
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
300
stereotypical names for soliders during the Civil War
What is Billy Yank- Northern solider and Johnny Reb-Southern solider
300
Five Border States
What is Delaware, Maryland, West Virgina, Kentucky and Missouri?
400
White abolitionist who lead a raid on Harper's Ferry Arsenal to get guns and ammunition to start a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown?
400
Bloodies single day of casualties of teh war, but led to the Emancipation Proclamation
What is Antietam?
400
Made all able-bodied males between the ages of 20-45 years old liable for military service.
What is the Conscription Act of 1863? (DRAFT)
400
Union Aim at the beginning of the War
What is preserve the Union? Later- Emancipation
400
Five main causes of the Civil War
What is slavery, economic differences, cultural differences, Sectionalism, and States' Rights?
500
organized nurses and rounded up medical supplies during the Civil War
Who is Clara Barton? The Founder of the American Red Cross
500
invented by Eli Whitney, it revitalized cotton farming and made slavery profitable again
What is the cotton gin?
500
It called for Amnesty for all who took a "Loyalty Oath". It had states ratify the 13th Amendment, abolish slavery, and declare secession "null and void" to name a few things.
What is the Wade-Davis Reconstruction Plan?
500
Confederate Aims at the Beginning of the War
What is States' Rights and Slavery
500
Leaders for the Civil War- Both Sides- President and Military Leaders should be included
What is Abraham Lincoln, George McClellan and Ulysses S. Grant-Union Leader and Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee, and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson- Confederate Leader?