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Presidential Information
Events Leading to the Civil War
Leading and Pivotal People
Civil War Information/ Battle Information
Reconstruction Information
100
The 15th President
Who is James Buchanan?
100
The acquisition of territories (like the Louisiana Purchase) resulting in more and more land for Americans until eventually reaching the Pacific Ocean.
What is Western Expansion?
100
An American statesman and leader of the Confederacy during the American Civil War serving as President for its entire history.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
100
An informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. Dr. Mary Walker, Sarah Emma Edmonds, etc.
What is the Underground Railroad? Who are the Women in the War? What is the Economic and Social Change?
100
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedman and Abandoned Lands. Created to assist for 1 year and the transition from slavery to freedom in the south. Laws that limited the freedom and rights of formerly enslaved people. Scalawag is white southerners who supported Radical Reconstruction?
What is the Freedmen Bureau? What are the Black Codes and the Scalawag?
200
The 16th President
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
200
An agreement between the North and the South and passed by Congress in 1820 that allowed Missouri to be admitted as the 24th state in 1821.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
200
A career military officer who is best known for having commanded the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia in the American Civil War. He was a slave who sued for his freedom in slavery days. His case went all the way up to the supreme court.
Who is Robert E. Lee? Who is Dred Scott?
200
The most famous speech of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and one of the most quoted famous speeches in United States history. Said the death of the soldiers would not remain in vain but remain in history and never be forgotten. Declared all slaves to be free forever.
What is the Gettysburg Address? What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
200
1877 saw the withdrawal of the federal truth that kept the peace. Scalawags (they were often democrats that went along witht he Radical Republicans).
What is the Federal Protection in the south? Who are the Constitutional Delegates?
300
The 17th President
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
A group of five bills that were intended to stave off sectional strife that would eventually lead to the Civil War.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
One of the foremost leaders of the abolitionist movement, which fought to end slavery within the United States in the decades prior to the Civil War. Former slave, abolitionist, preacher and advocate of women's rights.
Who is Frederick Douglass? Who is Sojourner Truth?
300
Congressmen who favored using federal power to rebuild the south and promote the rights of African Americans. Replaced Lincoln after his assassination and was the 17th President.
Who are the Radical Republicans? Who is Andrew Johnson?
400
The 18th President
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
400
It declared that all runaway slaves be brought back to their masters. Abolitionists nicknamed it the "Bloodhound Law" for the dogs that were used to track down runaway slaves.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
The first African American senator in 1870. A freed slave who was recruited by Union intelligence chief Allan Pinkerton to spy behind Confederate lines.
Who is Hiriam Revels? Who is John Scobell?
400
Discrimination against different kinds/ types of people. (Ku Klux Klan) Freedmen Schools (were attacked by racists by burning school buildings).
What is racism? What is the Legacy of Reconstruction?
500
Bill that became law on May 30, 1854, by which the U.S. Congress established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
500
An American soldier, businessman, educator and author. A spy for the Union forces during the American Civil War.
Who is William Sherman? Who is William A. Jackson?
500
The Panic caused an economical depression and it lasted for five years.
What is the Panic of 1873?