Pre-Civil War
How did the Mexican Cession create sectional tension throughout the 1850s?
Territorial expansion led to intense debates about the extension of slavery into the new areas.
Seamstress, Laundress, Cook, Etc.
What is the purpose of the Freedman's Bureau?
To help African Americans in the South in making the change from slavery to being a citizen!
Amendments that provided African Americans with greater access to the government
(must have 3 items stated)
correct answer= 200 points!
13th,14th, & 15th Amendments
Who was arrested for leading a raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown!!
Who was William Lloyd Garrison and why did he publish the Liberator?
An abolitionist, to discourage slavery
In the election of 1860 what was Lincoln's stance on slavery?
Slavery should not be allowed to expand into the territories.
The 14th Amendment directly repudiated which supreme court case?
Dred Scott v. Sanford
What was the 13th Amendment?
Abolished slavery!
Southern state laws that restrict the rights of free African Americans
Black Codes
What is the largest exports in the South during the mid-1800s?
Cotton & Tobacco!
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Primary goal of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1860's
intimated Republican voters in the South
(mainly African Americans)
What was Lincoln's message in his 1st Inaugural Address?
To preserve, protect and defend the Union and hopefully gain the South back.
A new system of labor was necessary after the Civil War. Former slaves rented and farmed land from their old masters. What was this new system?
Sharecropping
Daily Double!! What legislation was ruled unconstitutional by the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Missouri Compromise: 1820
What was Sherman's March?
Gen. Sherman burned down Atlanta to Savannah to frighten Georgia's civilian population into abandoning the Confederate cause
Scalawags!
Negative term that is associated with northern people who came to help freed slaves
Carpetbaggers!
What compromise allowed California to be a free state while Utah & New Mexico would be based off of popular sovereignty?
The Compromise of 1850
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act determine?
The use of popular sovereignty in the territories of Kansas & Nebraska
What are two impacts of the Emancipation Proclamation?
Made the abolition of slavery a primary goal of the war & freed the slaves in the South!
What is the 15th Amendment?
Provided suffrage rights to all male citizens (including African Americans)
How did the ruling of Dred Scott increase sectional tension?
1. Ruling declared slaves were not citizens
2. Ruled the Missouri Compromise as unconstitutional
What river was captured by the Union after the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Mississippi River!