The ability to influence people's actions or thoughts; the ability to make what you want happen.
What is power?
100
Southerners believed this to be a matter of private property. Other humans were owned and used to get work done. They cared about this and wanted to keep it because it made them money!
What is slavery?
100
This 4-year conflict, the largest in which the U.S. has ever participated, lasted from 1861 to 1865. Around 750,000 soldiers will killed, which represented 10% of all Northern men and 30% of all Southern men between 18 and 50.
What is the Civil War?
100
A period of time, lasting from 1865 until 1877, in which the Northern government took over the Southern states in order to rebuild the South, reunite the country, and give rights to former slaves.
What is Reconstruction?
200
When someone is treated differently because of their skin color or ethnicity.
What is racism?
200
This person killed 5 white slave-owners in Kansas. Then with 19 other black and white men, he captured the federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Virginia. His plan was to distribute guns and start a massive slave rebellion in the South. He was, however, captured and hanged. Many people viewed him as a hero and martyr.
Who was John Brown?
200
This was the name of the country founded by Southern states who left the Union during the Civil War.
What is the Confederacy? What are the Confederate States of America?
200
Laws made in states throughout the U.S., mostly in the South, to segregate white people and people of color. They were in place from the time after Reconstruction (1877) until the 1960's.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
People in who fought, through words and actions, to end slavery.
What are abolitionists?
300
This event caused the Southern states to leave the Union, because they believed that the North would take away their private property (slaves).
What was the election of Abraham Lincoln?
300
This battle in Pennsylvania was the turning point in the Civil War. The Southern Army had invaded the North, but after losing this battle, with 51,000 casualties on both sides, Lee retreated to the South and never got as far North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
300
A Representative from Pennsylvania who led the Radical Republicans. He wanted to transform the South and give not just freedom but also equal rights to all people, regardless of race.
What is Thaddeus Stevens?
400
To withdraw, or leave, from membership in an organization or alliance. (This is what the Southern states did when they left the Union.)
What is to "secede"? What is "secession"?
400
This system of buying and selling raw materials, manufactured goods, and slaves between three continents (America, Europe, and Africa) made racism extremely profitable. In fact, it helped invent racism.
What is triangular trade?
400
This famous speech was given as a dedication to a cemetery. Lincoln used it to encourage the Union to keep fighting, so that the country has a "new birth of freedom."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
Laws made after the Civil War that forbid African Americans from traveling freely, carrying weapons, meeting in groups, living in certain areas, and working for themselves, among other things.
What are black codes?
500
Having to do with money and business.
What is "economic"?
500
This person escaped slavery, wrote an autobiography, and gave powerful speeches to urge the abolition of slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
500
This person was put in charge of the Union Army at the end of the Civil War. He successfully fought against General Robert E. Lee. Later, he became president of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
500
This change to the Constitution made all people born in the United States citizens and gave equal protection of the law to all people regardless of race.