Where white people would "own" African Americans. The owners could make the people do whatever they wanted them to.
What is slavery?
100
The law made by Abraham Lincoln that legally set all slaves free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
Plans to rebuild the South after the war and to help make the country whole again. The plans were originated by Abraham Lincoln, but were carried out by other people once he was shot.
What are Reconstruction Plans?
100
The president during the Civil War. He signed the Emancipation Proclamation, and stopped the South from seceding.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
100
Abraham Lincoln's famous speech that begins, "Four score and seven years ago..." It was given at a famous battle site later turned into a graveyard/memorial.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
200
Beliefs that the states wants and needs were more important than the country's as a whole.
What are States' Rights?
200
One of the most famous and bloodiest battles in the Civil War. It was where Abraham Lincoln gave his famous speech that began, "Four score and seven years ago..."
What is The Gettysburg Address?
200
Group that helped provide food, clothes, shelter and work to newly freed slaves.
What is the Freedmans Bureau?
200
Black man who tried to sue a white man, but couldn't because he was considered "property."
Who is Dred Scott?
200
White group that would dress in robes and masks to help scare, terrorize and prevent African Americans from doing things.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
300
To make invalid.
What is nullification?
300
When Sherman marched through Georgia to the sea and burned everything in his path. The purpose was to cut off the South and destroy their resources.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
300
Where land owners would provide all materials needed to people (normally freed slaves and poor white men) so that they would farm there land and in return get half the crops.
What is sharecropping?
300
Woman who is credited for starting to Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
300
The primary jobs the women took over when their male family members went to war.
What is working the farms?
400
Court case that went to the Supreme court. It was over if a black man, Dred Scott, could sue. The verdict was that he couldn't because he was a person's "property."
What is the Dred Scott case?
400
First major battle of the Civil War. The Confederates won, but they lost over 1/4 of their army.
What is Antietam.
400
One of the first black legislators.
Who is Henry McNeal Turner?
400
Let the Union march through Georgia where they destroyed everything. This man also gave Savannah to President Lincoln for a Christmas gift.
Who is General Sherman?
400
Law that gave all males the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment to the Constitution?
500
An act passed that let the Kansas/Nebraska territories vote on being a slave state or not.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
500
Confederate prison camp where they kept Union soldiers that were captured. The conditions there were very bad, and many people died. They also polluted the river very badly.
What is Andersonville?
500
The same basic principals of sharecropping except that you owned some of your own materials (ex. animals, tools, seeds, ect...).
What is tenet farming?
500
Southern congresseman who advised South not to secede, but became Vice President of the Confederacy.
Who is Alexander Stephens?
500
Amendment to the constitution that made all citizens granted to freedom and forbade any state from denying anyone "equal protection of the law."