Slavery
This document declared all slaves free in the Confederacy.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This man was elected in 1960 to be the USA's 16th president.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Party of the South and the Confederacy.
What is the Democratic Party
Capital of the Confederacy towards the end of the Civil War.
What is Jackson, MS
This was a network of clandestine routes and safe houses established in the United States to help slaves escape the south
What was the Underground Railroad?
Occurred in 1820, set the precedent for future slave states and free states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A group of terrorists who formed to terrorize African Americans and Republicans.
First Black politician to be elected to Senate.
Who is Hiram Revels?
This song was used as a rallying song for the Confederacy
What is I wish I was in Dixie?
What is Chattel Slavery?
This prominent issue was behind many of the issues that led to the start of the Civil War
What is Slavery?
The two Presidents who oversaw reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant?
Party of the north and abolition
What is the Republican Party?
This song was the parody version of the Confederate rallying song.
What is Dixie?
What is the 13th Amendment?
A fort held in South Carolina, the firing upon started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumpter?
laws governing the conduct of African Americans
What were Black Codes?
What are the 14th and 15th amendments?
The most famous battle fought in Mississippi
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Many former slaves returned to their former masters in order to do this type of work.
What is sharecropping?
A zealous abolitionist who led a Raid on Harper's Ferry, VA.
Who is John Brown?
Laws that halted African American voting
What were literacy tests, grandfather clauses, and poll taxes?
Propaganda used to lessen the Civil War and Union's victory.
What was the Lost Cause?
President of the Confederacy and former senator from Mississippi.