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Reconstruction
Major battles
Trade
Causes of War
Compromises
100
These are agricultural systems where landless farmers work the fields of landowners for a portion of the crop.
What are sharecropping and tenant farming?
100
This is the bloodiest battle of the Civil War, also considered the turning point.
What is Gettysburg?
100
During Antebellum Georgia, what plant was the major crop?
What is cotton?
100
This slave filed a case in the Supreme Court, believing that he should be free because he lived in the north with his master.
Who is Dred Scott?
100
This is the decree that introduced Utah and New Mexico to the Union, and the people of those lands could vote on whether they want to be a free or slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
200
This amendment granted freedmen citizenship, but not the right to hold legislature, as demonstrated with Henry McNeal Turner and the black legislators. The black legislators were, however, allowed to enter Congress again after the 15th Amendment.
What is the 14th Amendment?
200
Led by William T. Sherman, this is his infamous raid of Georgia, where he burned a path 60 miles wide from the state's capital to Savannah.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea and/or Atlanta Campaign?
200
This is a type of plant that farmers grow to sell for money, rather than growing food-based crops.
What is cash crop?
200
This person, who later became vice president of the Confederate States of America, spoke on behalf of the south staying in the Union.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
200
Created by Henry Clay in 1820, this act allowed Missouri and Maine to enter the Union, as well as ban slavery above the 36°20' latitude.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This organization helped newly-freed slaves of the Civil War.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
This is the bloodiest single-day battle in the Civil War.
What is Antietam?
300
This was what the North's economy was based on in the Civil War Era.
What is Industry?
300
This is the belief that a state's interests should come before those of the national government and the laws that disagree with the interests of the state may be made invalid.
What is states' rights and/or nullification?
300
This compromise created two territories, canceled out the Missouri Compromise, and broke the peace created by the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400
This racist group sought to keep freedom away from African Americans
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
400
This is the battle where Union forces are driven to Chattanooga.
What is Chickamauga?
400
This is what the south's economy was based on in the Civil War era.
What is Agriculture?
400
This is the year when Abraham Lincoln won his first presidential election, angering the south.
What is 1860?`
400
This agreement declares that the southern states wouldn't secede if no more of their rights were taken away.
What is the Georgia Platform?
500
This Amendment granted slaves freedom and made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This was a major part of the Union's war plan, which included a blockade of the coasts of the entire Confederacy.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
500
This is the theory that a group can declare something invalid.
What is nullification?
500
This speech, made by President Lincoln, gives the south a choice on whether or not they want to stay in the Union and keep their slaves or fight and lose their slaves.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?