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Democrats in the United States Congress that favored allowing the Southern States to secede from the United States.
Who are Copperheads?
Location in the harbor of Charleston, South Carolina where the opening shots of the Civil War were fired.
What is Fort Sumter?
US Supreme Court decision by Chief Justice Roger Taney that declared that slaves are not citizens and, therefore, have no legal standing in the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Establishes the 36*30' parallel as the dividing line between free and slaveholding states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A best-selling novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe that describes the life of a slave on a southern plantation.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
A regiment of Black soldiers organized following General Order 143 that would go on to establish the military skills of Black Americans during the Civil War.
What is the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Location of a violent draft riot in the United States during the Civil War.
What is New York City?
Announced prior to the Battle of Gettysburg, this document changed the purpose and scope of the Civil War.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Proposal by Stephen Douglas to organize a plains territory into two states that decide the slavery by popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Laws intended to restrict the freedom and limit the advancement of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Led by Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner, these Congressmen were determined to reconstruct the nation on the basis of equal rights for all.
Who are Radical Republicans?
The collective name of the 11 states that attempted to secede from the United States.
What are the Confederate States of America?
Speech by Abraham Lincoln that established the purpose of the Civil War as protecting "government of the people, by the people, for the people."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Required the return of escaped enslaved blacks to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Establishes citizenship criteria for people living in the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
Redeemer Organization founded after the Civil War that used violence to prevent Black suffrage and equality under the law.
Location of President Abraham Lincoln's assassination by John Wilkes Booth.
What is Ford's Theater in Alexandria, Virginia?
The widespread destruction of land, rail lines, and resources between Atlanta and Savannah, Georgia.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Military strategy of the Union Army, designed by General Winfield Scott to strangle the South into submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Abraham Lincoln's second Vice President, who became President upon Lincoln's assassination.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
A government agency formed to assist formerly enslaved people and poor White people living in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Location of the surrender of Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia to Ulysses Grant's Army of the Potomac.
What is Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia?
Abolished the practice of slavery within the United States.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
What are Jim Crow Laws?