Slavery in America
What is the Missouri Compromise?
An agreement that allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state and Maine to enter as a free state. It banned slavery in the Louisiana Purchases and past the 36, 30 line
What was the immediate cause of the secession of the states?
Election of 1860
What number was North Carolina in the order of secession?
10th
What was Reconstruction?
Readmit the southern states and define the rights of the freed man.
What was the popular novel that helped increase the opposition to slavery?
Uncles Tom Cabin
What was a way slaves resisted on a daily basis?
Answer can vary
Which state was the first to secede from the Union?
South Carolina.
What "Nickname" did North Carolina have during the war? And Why?
"Solider State" because they contributed the most confederate troops in the war.
Who became the President after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
What does "Impeaching a President" mean?
to bring formal misconduct charges against them
What was the Supreme Court Case that ruled that slaves were not citizens and could not sue for their freedom?
Dred Scott V. Sandford
What was the bloodiest battle in the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Approximately, how many soldiers did contribute to the war?
135,000
What were the Reconstruction Amendments?And what did they state.
13th, 14th, 15th
Name a way the south states used to get around the 15th amendment.
Answers may vary
What was the goal of the Fugitive Slave Act?
To provide a compromise between the North and South and prevent enslaved individuals from running away.
How did the Emancipation Proclamation change the purpose of the war?
Making the war a moral struggle to end slavery
Where was the largest surrender of Confederate troops? And how many?
Bentonville, 90,000
What were the "Black Codes"?
Laws passed by southern states to limit the rights of freedman
Sharecropping often resulted in what
A cycle of debt for the newly freed
What was the issue with Texas entering the Union?
It would upset the balance of the government and upset the balance of freed and slave states.
Name one advantage both the Union and the Confederacy had during the war.
Answer may vary
Which part of NC was against the war and slavery?
Western NC
The term "Carpetbagger" means
A Northern who moved South for political or financial gain
What supreme court case ruled "Separate but Equal"
Plessy V. Ferguson