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Origins of Civil War
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Legacy
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A response to the proliferation of anti-slavery societies and to the emergence of the Underground Railroad. Like the Constitution itself, this act does not include a single mention of the words "slave" or "slavery."
What is the Fugitive Slave Act 1793?
100
This law also spurred the continued operation of the fabled Underground Railroad, a network of over 3,000 homes and other "stations" that helped escaping slaves travel from the southern slave-holding states to the northern states and Canada.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850?
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He repeated his commitment to noninterference with slavery and support of the Fugitive Slave Law. Went so far as to endorse a constitutional amendment to protect slavery in perpetuity--sometimes called the "first Thirteenth Amendment."
Who is Lincoln?
100
He authored an essay entitled, "Men of Color, to Arms!" which became a rallying cry for African American recruiters and enlistees including the Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Volunteer Infantry. "
Who is Frederick Douglass?
100
Prominent historian who is skeptical of the self-emancipation thesis and hesitantly supports Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.
Who is Jim McPherson?
200
Outgrowth of strong anti-immigrant sentiment during the 1840s that opposed expansion of slavery; ultimately lost out to the GOP during the 1850s.
What is the Know Nothing Party?
200
Repealed the Missouri Compromise, allowing slavery in the territory north of the 36° 30´ latitude. Introduced by Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois, stipulated that the issue of slavery would be decided by the residents of each territory.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
200
Seventy percent of African American men of fighting age joined Union forces--a rate roughly three times that of qualified white men--through this organization.
What is the Bureau of Colored Troops?
200
First, mobs of working-class men attacked the homes and businesses of the elite. When police arrived, the mobs turned on the city's free black population. They burned the Colored Orphan Asylum and attacked and murdered African Americans on the streets.
What are the New York City Draft Riots (1863)?
200
Interpretation of the Civil War that seeks to present the war, from the perspective of Confederates, accompanied by a collective forgetting of the horrors of slavery.
What is the Lost Cause? See: http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Lost_Cause_The#start_entry
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This work condemned northern apathy and southern support of slavery: "It’s a shameful, wicked, abominable law, and I’ll break it, for one, the first time I get a chance; and I hope I shall have a chance, I do!"
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
300
Mocking a South Carolina senator as a man of chivalry, he charged him with taking "a mistress . . . who, though ugly to others, is always lovely to him; though polluted in the sight of the world, is chaste in his sight—I mean," added Sumner, "the harlot, Slavery."
Who is Charles Sumner?
300
He was one of the most influential black newspaper correspondents during the Civil War and an ardent critic of unequal and poor pay for black Union soldiers.
Who is George E. Stephens?
300
Daughter of wealthy black family in Philadelphia, came to the South to help teach young freed people, witnessing and documenting the transition from slave labor to wage labor.
Who is Charlotte Forten?
300
As the South faced prospects of losing in 1865, white Southerners freed a small number of slaves and put them into Confederate Uniform. They also pointed to this this Confederate Regiment at the start of the war.
What is the Louisiana Native Guards? See: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/09/black-confederates/ http://people.virginia.edu/~jh3v/retouchinghistory/essay.html
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He was captured and tried under the law in Boston, in a case that generated national publicity, large demonstrations, protests and an attack on US Marshals at the courthouse.
Who is Anthony Burns?
400
. . . I believe to have interfered as I have done, . . . in behalf of His despised poor, was not wrong, but right. Now, if it be deemed necessary that I should forfeit my life for the furtherance of the ends of justice, and mingle my blood further with the blood of my children, and with the blood of millions in this slave country whose rights are disregarded by wicked, cruel, and unjust enactments, I submit: so let it be done."
Who is John Brown?
400
Lincoln waited for a military victory to issue the Emancipation Proclamation. In September of 1862, he got it.
What is Antietam?
400
In 1865, the Militia Act (1862) was extended to free the wives and children of black soldiers everywhere, often black soldiers like him took the law into his own hands.
Who is Spotswood Rice?
400
One of the most enduring myths to emerge from the era of Abraham Lincoln is the notion that the South fought the Civil War not to defend slavery, but to uphold this.
What is states' rights? See: http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2011/04/myth-secession-states-rights-civil-wa/
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Union commander who refused to return slaves unless their owners swore allegiance to the Union.
Who is Benjamin Butler?
500
His speech in Savannah established the racial justification for slavery and the creation of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
500
In June of 1862, this black abolitionist newspaper criticized Lincoln's reversal of Union general David Hunter's orders, freeing slaves in South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, calling it a "Pro-Slavery Proclamation."
What is the Pacific Appeal?
500
This Prussian born Confederate sympathizer adopted the pro-slavery cause and sketched images illustrating widespread views and beliefs about Lincoln's proclaimed freedom.
Who is Adalbert Johann Volck?
500
Perhaps the best way to understand the meanings and origins of the Civil War is to begin with this era and work backwards like W.E.B. Du Bois.
What is Reconstruction?