Slavery, Sectional Crisis, & Civil War
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
The war divided the country between Union Yankees and these Confederate fighters.
Who were the Rebels?
100
The act of freeing people from slavery or legal control.
What is emancipation?
100
Southern states threatened to ______ from the Union.
What is secede?
100
Long-running conflict over this issue deepened sectional divisions before the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100
This term describes the Confederate States of America or something related to them.
What is Confederate?
200
Southern states formally did this when they withdrew from the Union.
What is secede?
200
Rights protecting equal treatment and participation in society.
What are civil rights?
200
Union soldiers were often called ______.
Who were Yankees?
200
Southern secession transformed political conflict into this.
What is war?
200
This term meant political or legal correction for a wrong.
What is redress?
300
This war was fought between organized groups within the same country.
What is the Civil War?
300
To give a person or group the right to vote.
What is enfranchise?
300
Confederate soldiers became associated with the ______ Yell.
What is the Rebel Yell?
300
The Civil War changed the legal status of enslaved people through this.
What is emancipation?
300
Critics used this word for what they believed was excessive political power held by slaveholders.
What is slavocracy?
400
During the war, escaped enslaved people reaching Union lines were sometimes classified using this term.
What is contraband?
400
A farming system in which a tenant works another person’s land for a share of the crop.
What is sharecropping?
400
After Lincoln was ______, Reconstruction continued under new leadership.
What is assassinated?
400
Emancipation created new national questions involving citizenship, rights, and this form of participation.
What is political participation?
400
This principle requires government to follow fair legal procedures before depriving someone of life, liberty, or property.
What is due process?
500
After the war, this process tried to rebuild the South and redefine citizenship.
What is Reconstruction?
500
The enforced separation of groups, especially by race.
What is segregation?
500
The ______ Republicans pushed for stronger changes during Reconstruction.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
500
Discriminatory laws, violence, sharecropping, and segregation produced this major failure of Reconstruction.
What is the failure to achieve equal freedom for Black Americans?
500
This illegal act means killing someone, especially by a mob, without a lawful trial.
What is lynching?