Antebellum Aggressions
This Compromise made slavery illegal above the 36 30 line. It also gave us the state of Maine.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This amendment freed all the slaves and made slavery illegal.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This side had heavy industry but lacked military leadership.
What is the North?
These were laws put in place to keep African Americans away from experiencing new found freedoms in the South.
What are Black Codes?
This form of farming became the way of life for many in the Post War South. It was almost the same as slavery.
What is Sharecropping?
The election in 1860 brought this man to the presidency and was the tipping point for Southern states.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
President Lincoln gave this speech at the dedication of a cemetery in 1863.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This side lacked industry but made up for it with great military leadership.
What is the South?
This group in Congress made sure that Reconstruction actually happened.
What are the Radical Republicans?
This movement gained popularity in the years leading up to the War.
What is the Abolitionist Movement?
The introduction of this crop in the South made it the main driving force for the Southern economy, thus making slavery relevant again.
What is Cotton?
This Amendment gives citizenship to anyone born in the United States?
What is the 14th Amendment?
This battle is the bloodiest battle in United States history.
What is Gettysburg?
This group gained popularity in the South after using terrorist tactics on African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This is the term used for Southerners who supported Northern Reconstruction.
What is Scalawags?
The Compromise of 1850 introduced a method of determining whether a state would allow slavery or not through something called this.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This is what the 15th Amendment did.
What is give all free men the right to vote?
This Union general was the one who was finally able to go head-to-head with Lee.
Who is Ulysses S Grant?
The election of 1876 ended in a dead heat which led to congress agreeing to this compromise, which ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
It means to leave or break away.
What is Sucession?
This extreme abolitionist lead gangs in Kansas and Nebraska. Watch out for the blood...
Who is John Brown?
The Emancipation Proclomation freed slaves in these areas.
What is the rebelling states?
This man claimed he was a Virginian not an American. Arlington Cemetery used to be his estate.
Who is Robert E Lee?
Bill Clinton and this man are the only two US Presidents to have been impeached (though there might be another one added to this list shortly).
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This Supreme Court case stated that slaves do not have rights because they are property.
What is Dredd Scott?