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This prohibited slavery in the Louisiana Territory above the 36-30 parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
First land battle that proved the war was not going to be short.
What is the Battle of Bull Run/Battle of Manassas?
This group of people helped the war effort by nursing, spying, and even fighting.
Who are women?
This person's plan was lenient on the Confederate States and only required 10% of voters to take an oath.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This allowed California as a free state, strengthened the fugitive slave act, and allowed Utah and Mexico to decide on slavery through popular sovereignty.
This was the bloodiest day of the war, and led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
This group contributed to the war effort in order to protect their sovereignty.
Who were the Native Americans?
This group's plan for reconstruction included sending troops to the South with the goal of securing rights for African Americans.
Who are Radical Republicans?
The 15th amendment was restricted by these two things.
What are literacy tests, poll taxes, intimidation, violence?
This led South Carolina to secede from the nation in December 1860.
What is the Election of 1860/Election of Abraham Lincoln?
This was the Confederates last attempt of invading the North
What is Gettysburg?
This group contributed to the war effort by increasing Union troop strength, and weakening the Confederacy's labor system.
Who are African Americans?
This made Rutherford B. Hayes the president of the United States in exchange troops would be removed from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
These were put in place to restrict African Americans' rights and maintain segregation in society.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This was a raid on the federal arsenal in Virginia with the intention of creating a slave uprising.
What was John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry?
This is an example of total war because civilians were also targeted
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
The Union's plan to cut off the South from trade and split them in half.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
The purpose of this was to provide education and assistance to formerly enslaved people; it was met with resistance by President Johnson.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This system kept African Americans in slavery like conditions due to creating a continuing cycle of debt.
What is sharecropping?
He sued for his freedom and the court ruled African Americans were not citizens and did not have rights in the courts.
Who is Dred Scott?
This split the confederacy into two.
What is Vicksburg?
This happened to the power of the federal government throughout the war.
What is increase?
This court case ruled segregation was legal as long as accommodations were equal.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The main goal of this group was to keep the prewar societal structure post-civil war.
What is the KKK?