Mod 16: Social Reform Movements
Mod 17: 2MP 1-3/Causes of the Civil War
Mod 18: 2MP 4-6/Civil War 1861-1863
Mod 18: 2MP 7-9/Civil War 1863-1865
Mod 19: Reconstruction (1865-1877)
100
What is the term for an organized attempt to change something you believe is wrong or unjust in society?
A social reform movement
100
Who attempted to lead a slave rebellion by stealing weapons at Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
100
Who were the "Two Miserable Presidents"?
Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis
100
What town became the site of the largest battle of the Civil War? It came to be known as the "turning point" of the War.
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
100
Who were the two Presidents in the Reconstruction Era?
Andrew Johnson and Ulysses S. Grant
200
What was the name of the social reform movement that wanted to reduce or eliminate drinking alcohol?
The Temperance Movement
200
What "bleeding" state was the site of pro-slavery/anti-slavery violence before the Civil War?
Kansas
200
Which first major battle of the War convinced both sides it would be a long, hard-fought struggle?
Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
200
Who ran against Lincoln in the Presidential Election of 1864? He wanted to end the war quickly.
George McClellan
200
Which Reconstruction amendment granted citizenship to former slaves?
The 14th
300
What was the name of the social reform movement with the goal of ending slavery?
Bonus: Double your points if you can tell me one member of this movement and what they did to contribute to it!
Abolitionism
Bonus: Frederick Douglass; Harriet Tubman; the Grimke Sisters; Harriet Beacher Stowe; others?
300
He sued for his freedom and his case went to the Supreme Court. When he lost, the Supreme Court announced that enslaved people are property.
Dred Scott
300
What did the Emancipation Proclamation order?
BONUS: Name the Union victory that gave Lincoln the clout to announce the Emancipation Proclamation.
The freedom of all slaves in rebel territory; Antietam
300
What city was the South's last stronghold blocking the Mississippi River?
Vicksburg, Mississippi
300
What was a term for the laws designed to segregate or limit the rights of black Americans?
"Black codes" or "Jim Crow Laws"
400
Where was the first women's rights convention held in the U.S.?
Bonus: Double your points if you can tell me the two women who organized it!
Seneca Falls, NY
Bonus: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott
400
Who escaped from slavery by train and went on to become a famous abolitionist? He helped support the Underground Railroad and traveled to speak about slavery in the U.S. and Europe.
Frederick Douglass
400
What were the three parts of the Union plan for victory?
1. Isolate the South
2. Capture the Conf. capital/Richmond
3. Capture the Miss. River/cut confederacy in two.
400
Where did Lee surrender the Army of Northern Virginia to Grant and the Army of the Potomac?
Appomattox Courthouse
400
What was the name of the agency designed to help former slaves and poor white southerners adjust after the war?
The Freedman's Bureau
500
Surprise Module 17 Question! What specific event triggered South Carolina and other states to secede from the Union?
The election of Abraham Lincoln to President
500
List three advantages the North had going into the War.
More people, more factories, more ships, more railroad
500
Who won the battles every time the North attempted to invade Virginia? Name two examples.
Confederacy/the South: Bull Run (1861), Seven Days (1862), Fredericksburg (1862), Chancellorsville (1863), Wilderness (1864), Spotsylvania (1864)
500
What state did Sherman make "howl" in 1864 as he destroyed anything the South could use to wage war?
Georgia
500
What happened to the land plantation owners owned before the War?
It was returned to them