This increased the need for slavery because of the speed at which it could process cotton.
What is the cotton gin?
100
General Winefield Scott wanted to implement this strategy that "constricted" the South through the use of a naval blockade.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
Three jobs that Lincoln held before becoming president.
What are rail-splitter, store owner, lawyer, farmer, fence builder, congressman, ferryboat driver?
100
This three day battle left thousands dead, the Southern army in retreat, and was the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
100
Abolitionist
What is someone who opposes slavery and is in favor of ending it right away?
200
A series of safe-houses designed to help fugitive slaves escape North.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200
General P.G.T. Beauregard fired the first shots of the war against his former teacher at this location.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
200
President Lincoln's plan for after the war.
What was a peaceful and quick reconstruction that helped the South come back into the Union?
200
Congress voted to ________ President Johnson for breaking laws during Congressional Reconstruction.
What is impeach?
200
White farmers would lend former slaves farm equipment, in return the former slaves would give the farmers half of their crops.
What is sharecropping?
300
This act declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional and left the issue of slavery to popular voting.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This general upset President Lincoln so much for his inability to pursue the enemy, he asked, "If you aren't going to use my army, do you mind if I borrow it?"
Who is General McClellan?
300
President Lincoln decided to issue the Emancipation Proclamation after the "bloodiest" of Union victories during this battle.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
General Lee's greatest victory was also his last. This battle also led him to "lose his right arm," with the death of "Stonewall" Jackson.
What is the Battle of Chancellorsville/Wilderness?
300
Rural and Urban.
What is having to do with countryside/farmland and having to do with cities/towns?
400
DOUBLE JEOPARDY!!!
This Supreme Court case ruled that black Americans are not considered citizens but property.
400
This battle was a "glowing" victory for the North in Tennessee. Under General Grant, Union forces were able to control part of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
400
The start of the Civil War was to preserve states' rights and stop the rebelling Confederate states. The Emancipation Proclamation, however, made the war about this issue that prevented foreign aide to the South.
What is slavery?
400
This was the site where General Ulysses S. Grant and General Robert E. Lee met to discuss terms of surrender.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
400
A system for selecting individuals from a group for military service.
What is the draft?
500
John Brown led a daring attack on this arsenal hoping to further the cause of abolitionists. Ironically, the only person killed in his anger was a free black man.
Frederick Douglass was friends with this abolitionist who published the newspaper, The Liberator.
What is Harper's Ferry?
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
500
The Battle of Bull Run was a disaster for Union troops and morale, retreating all the way back to Washington D.C. However, this Confederate general was extremely brave, not phased by the gunfire. Due to his actions, he was given this nickname.
Who is General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
500
Although President Lincoln never saw Reconstruction, his legacy helped lead to this Amendment that stated all people of color (except some Indians) were allowed to become citizens of the United States and all rights protected by the Constitution.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
Although Congressional Reconstruction was somewhat successful, once they "flew" back North, the South issued these kinds of laws that supported segregation.
What are Jim Crow laws?
500
Secede
What is to withdraw formally from an organization or a nation?