The Pre-Civil War Era
This secret network of paths and safehouses for helping slaves escape to freedom. NO, it was NOT made of tunnels!
What is the Underground Railroad?
This institution of forced labor was one of the causes of the Civil War, and abolitionists existed to speak out against it.
What is Slavery?
This group terrorized African-Americans to stop them from exercising their rights.
Who are the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
These animals were almost driven to extinction during Westward Expansion
The President during the Civil War
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
_____ entered the Union as a slave state as part of the Missouri Compromise, and _______ entered as a free state.
Slave state: Missouri
Free state: Maine
The movement to STOP the practice of slavery.
What is Abolition? / Who are Abolitionists?
People who moved South to make money off of the cheap, destroyed land.
Who are Carpetbaggers?
The year of the California Gold Rush (Hint: that football team)
1849
This woman helped slaves escape to freedom, and was the first woman in American History to lead troops.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This law stated that a slave who escapes to a free state is not free, and gives rewards to those who catch escaped slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The Union strategy during the Civil War-- cut off all of the South's water access so that they can't transport food or money.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
NAME TWO of the loopholes that were used to stop the 15th amendment.
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: Grandfather clause, literacy tests, poll taxes
Name TWO things that made life out West very difficult for settlers.
ACCEPTABLE ANSWERS: Drought, flood, fire, blizzards, locust plagues, disease, crime, starvation, conflict with Native Americans.
The Union's leading General-- later became President, working to stop corruption in the government.
Ulysses S. Grant
The Kansas-Nebraska Act gave people the right to decide if their state would be a free state or a slave state. What is this practice of voting to decide called?
Confederates attacked THIS military base, officially starting the Civil War.
What is Ft. Sumter?
What do each of these amendments do?
13th:
14th:
15th:
13th: Abolishes slavery
14th: Defines citizenship
15th: All races of MEN can vote (suffrage)
What did the 1882 Dawes Act do?
Broke up tribal land and gave it to Western settlers
The woman who wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin," a book detailing the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
The book written by Harriet Beecher Stowe that detailed the horrible conditions of slavery. Northerners were moved by it, slave owners said it was a lie!
What is "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
The bloodiest battle to occur on American soil, where Lincoln gave his famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This president tried to stop the 14th/15th amendments from being passed, and was impeached!
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This law offered 160 acres of Western land FREE to citizens
What is The Homestead Act of 1862?
The Confederacy's leading General-- was against secession, but didn't want to fight against his loved ones in Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?