This compromise allowed MO to enter the United States as a slave state, and in the future any Northern states would enter as free states and Southern states as slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise.
100
This was the first state to secede from the Union.
What is South Carolina.
100
This amendment gave all men the right to vote, regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th amendment.
200
This region had many large plantations and its economy was based on slavery.
What is the South.
200
Slaves were legally considered this.
What is property.
200
This compromise allowed CA to enter the United States as a free state and ME as a slave state.
What is the Compromise of 1850.
200
This document freed the slaves in the South during the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
200
This amendment legally abolished slavery.
What is the 13th amendment.
300
Why was slavery primarily in the South?
What is because of the hot climate and long growing season.
300
Give an example of how masters controlled their slaves.
What is violence, intimidation, bribery...
300
This event began over the issue of slavery, where pro and anti slavery groups attacked one another to gain control of Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas.
300
The main goal at the beginning of the Civil War for the United States was this.
What is to preserve the Union.
300
This amendment gave all U.S. citizens certain rights and guaranteed equal protection of the law.
What is the 14th amendment.
400
Name one motive of abolitionists.
*religious (Second Great Awakening)
*personal (horrible, family, etc.)
400
Give an example of resistance to slavery.
What is running away, tricking their master, pretending to be sick...
400
This Supreme Court decision said that African Americans could never be U.S. citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision.
400
This was the first official battle of the Civil War, where the Confederates attacked the Union.
What is Fort Sumter.
400
This act helped protect former slaves in the South during Reconstruction.
What is the Military Reconstruction Act.
500
How did education change after the Education Reform movement?
More people had the opportunity to get an education including people of color and women.
500
What impact did Uncle Tom’s Cabin have on American society?
What is it being a cause of the Civil War. Showed the whole country the horrors (reality) of slavery.
500
This law made Northerners help return runaway slaves to the owners in the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act.
500
He was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis.
500
Give two examples of how Reconstruction promoted and restricted civil rights.
Promoted:13th, 14th, 15th Amendments, Military Reconstruction Act, Freedmen's Bureau...
Restricted:KKK, Plessy vs. Ferguson, black codes, segregation, Jim Crow laws...