Vocabulary
What is Reconstruction
Process of rebuilding the union with the readmission of the southern states
I was born into slavery and became a famous conductor. Who am I?
Harriet Tubman
What is the biggest divider for sectionalism
16th President of the United States
What is Abraham Lincoln
What war did America Fight to win its independence from Great Britain
What is American Revolution
What is a alliance formed for a common purpose
What is Confederacy
What event took place that was an organized gathering in the U.S to advocate for women rights?
Seneca Falls Convention of 1848
Sectionalism is define as what
What is the concern for regional needs and interest
General in charge of Confederate forces. Joined his home state of Virginia
What is Robert E Lee
What war did Americans fight in before the American revolution while part of the British empire.
What is the French and Indian War
What is the withdrawal of a state from a union
What is Secession
I invented a machine that revolutionized the cotton industry by quickly removing seeds from cotton fibers. Who Am I?
Eli Whitney
What compromise required the return of escape enslaved people to their masters following California entry into the union as a state.
What is compromise of 1850
Who assassinated Abraham Lincoln in ford theater on April, 1865
What is John Wilkes Booth
What war did America fight Britain following the capture of merchant marine vessels in the 1800s
What is war of 1812
What is concern for regional needs and interest
What is Sectionalism
This is a state sponsored canal that facilitated the movement of raw materials to factories and finished products to markets
Erie Canal
Provided that slavery was permitted in territory below the state of missouri and slavery is outlawed above that line.
What is the Missouri Compromise
Where did General Robert E Lee of the Confederate army surrender to General Ulysses S Grant of the Union Army
What is Appomattox Court House
What war lead to the addition of Texas and California as states to the United States from Mexico
What is Mexican American War
What is the practice of receiving a portion of the crops in exchange for living and farming on a large estate
What is Sharecropping
This term refers to an economic system where private individuals or businesses own and control the production of goods and services, rather than the government?
free enterprise
When deciding if the Nebreska territory will become a free state or slave state. It was decided to split the territory into the states of Kansas and Nebraska along with using popular sovereignty to decide on the states stance on slavery
What is Kansas- Nebraska Act
What is the proclamation given after the battle of Antietam changing the nature of the war to include the freedom of enslaved African Americans
What is Emancipation Proclamation
What is the war that divided the country over slavey
What is the Civil War