People
Most famous "conductor" on the underground railroad
Harriet Tubman
This movement started in churches by women pushing for change in their families.
Temperance Movement
What was the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to emancipated slaves and people born in the US
President Davis believed that the federal government made secession necessary, while Lincoln believed...
the union must be preserved.
This man demonstrated civil disobedience by refusing to pay taxes in protest against the Mexican War.
Henry David Thoreau
Published an anti-slavery newspaper
William Lloyd Garrison
Frederick Douglass inspired followers of the abolitionist movement by...
publishing the anti-slavery newspaper, "The North Star"
What was the 15th Amendment?
As a result of President Abraham Lincoln's issuance of Emancipation...
The focus of the war shifted to include the abolition of slavery
Former Slaves became this to earn a living in the South.
Sharecroppers
Led efforts to promote women's rights to vote
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
What was the major impact of the novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Support grew for the abolitionist movement, why talking about the "evils of slavery".
The Kansas-Nebraska Act led to...
allowing to decide whether it would permit slavery...therefore...Bleeding Kansas
What made the battles at Antietam an Gettysburg different from most other battles in the Civil War
They were battles fought in Union territory
These three things weakend the effects of which amendment?
Poll Taxes
Literacy Tests
Grandfather Clauses
Fifteenth Amendment
Promoting advancement in public education
Horace Mann
This movement involved groups and people, such as: The Quakers, William Lloyd Garrison, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The Abolitionist Movement
Under the Compromise of 1850, The Fugitive Slave Law did what?
captured both freedman and escaped slaves and forced their return to their owners in the south.
Why was the Battle of Vicksburg a strategic victory in the Civil War?
The battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, splitting the South into two.
How did the Freedman's Bureau assist the reconstruction of the South?
Legal assistance was provided to formerly enslaved persons.
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Public schooling was provided to educate formerly enslaved persons
Fought to create legislation to help jails and asylums for the poor to improve conditions
Dorothea Dix
The idea that a state's inhabitants could vote for or against slavery in their state is known as this 7th principale...
Popular Sovereignty
The Free Soil Party and the Republican Party in the mid-1800's both wanted what?
They both were against the expansion of slavery into the western territories.
After the Civil War, southern states adopted Black Codes to limit the impact of which amendment?
The Thirteenth & Fourteenth Amendment
The purpose of military government in the South during Reconstruction was for what?
It protected and ensured the rights of newly freed enslaved people were upheld.