Antebellum Era
The main good produced by the South.
What is Cotton?
The nation that won the Mexican-American War.
What is America?
The movement that protested slavery.
What is The Abolitionist Movement?
The best general for the South.
What is Robert E. Lee?
The president that initially proposed reconstruction of the south
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The invention that boosted the profit of cotton production. (made by Eli Whitney)
What is the Cotton Gin?
The nation that attacked first in the Mexican-American War.
What is Mexico?
The Act that required citizens in the North to help capture escapee slaves.
What is The Fugitive Slave Act?
The general that launched the Siege of Petersburg.
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
The amendment that fully abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment?
The wars that started and ended the Antebellum Era. (Two answers)
What is
1) The War Of 1812?
2) The Civil War?
The name of the treaty that Mexico was forced to sign.
What is Guadalupe Hidalgo?
The major event that the Kansas-Nebraska Act caused.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The battle with the largest amount of casualties for it's time.
What is The Battle of Gettysburg?
John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln because he was a _______ in his eyes.
What is "tyrant"?
The main form of profit from the North. (contrary to slavery for the South)
What is Industrial Machines?
The geographical feature that caused a dispute and would lead to the the war beginning.
What is Rio Grande/Nueces River?
The method that decided whether or not Utah and New Mexico were slave/free states.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The battle that completed the Anaconda Plan.
What is The Battle of Vicksburg?
The event that halted Reconstruction.
What is The Compromise Of 1877?
Why were Northern States so hesitant to push against the issue of slavery for the entire Antebellum Era?
What is the threat of secession?
The amount of states that were gained as territory from the Mexican-American War.
What is 6 full states? (or 8 if you count portions)
The supreme court case that set an upsetting precedent which labeled slaves who lived in free states as still enslaved.
What is Dred Scott v. John Sandford? (or Dred Scott Decision)
The year was the Anaconda Plan completed.
What is 1863?
The Latin phrase that John Wilkes Booth said after assassinating Abraham Lincoln.
What is "Thus always to Tyrants."?