He was the Sixteenth president. His election would lead to South Carolina leaving the Union first.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
This Compromise proposed admitting Missouri as a slave state and the Main territory as a free state. The 36/30 line would start as well.
What is Missouri Compromise?
100
Union Generals hoped to divide the Confederacy into two by taking over this river.
What is the Mississippi River?
100
The Name of the Time Before The Civil War (1784-1860)
What is the Antebellum Period?
100
He was rumored to have planed a slave revolt in Charleston in 1822. This rumor led to more strengthened slave codes.
Who is Denmark Vesey?
200
He resigned as Vice President of the United States due in part to the Tariff of 1832. Hint......he was from South Carolina
Who is John C. Calhoun?
200
In this court case a Slave suded the state of Missouri for his freedom. The Supreme Court would decide against him.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
200
The US Navy would set up these stoping the import and export of goods.
What is blockades?
200
South Carolina had many cash crops but this one was "King"
What is Cotton
200
He wrote The Liberator and was a huge abolitionist
Who is William Garrison?
300
He is known as the Great Compromiser
Who is Henry Clay?
300
This movement involved people who wanted an end to slavery in the United States
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
300
This battle is where Robert E. Lee would lose his first battle. Many believe this is the battle that changed the momentum of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
300
This was the basis of Society in South Carolina
What is Agriculture?
300
A loyalty to a particular region or section of a country instead of to the nation as a whole.
What is Sectionalism?
400
This man lead a march that would destroy the South
Who is William T. Sherman?
400
In this compromise California would join the Union as a free state, and the Southern states would be given a new fugitive slave law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
400
This proclamation issued by Lincoln stated, "all persons held as slaves within any States....in rebellion against the United States shall be.... forever free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
400
Many historians argue that Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin was the primary reason for the continuation of this in the South
What is slavery
400
This group was for leaving the Union. However only if it was the last resort and with the support of the other Southern States
What are the Cooperationists?
500
Not only was he asked to be the leader of the Union Troops but also the Confederacy
Who is Robert E Lee
500
This Crisis involved the US Government starting a protective tariff (1832) on Northern manufactured goods. South Carolina would not like this idea, and hold a meeting to see if they could reject the Tariff.
What is the Nullification Crisis?
500
On August 9, 1865 Lee surrendered his troops here in Virginia
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
This lifestyle required self sustaining communities and depended on the institution of slavery for the production of goods and services needed to support plantations.
What is Plantation Life?
500
This political statement said that the federal government should not interfere with the decision makikng and freedoms of the individual states.