Abolitionist responsible for the Raid on Harpers Ferry and Bleeding Kansas
Who is John Brown?
100
Union war plan to cut off the Confederacy's supplies
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
After the Battle of Antietam, Lincoln made this declaration to free slaves in states of rebellion
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This election made Rutherford B. Hayes president and ended Reconstruction
What is the Election of 1876?
100
This agricultural system left many of its participants in severe and often lifelong debt
What is sharecropping?
200
Election that made Lincoln president and made South Carolina secede from the Union
What is the Election of 1860?
200
This battle in the west was a major Union victory in 1863
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
200
This series of debates between two politicians in Illinois that famously included an argument about popular sovereignty and the Dred Scott Decision
What are the Lincoln and Douglas Debates?
200
This plan for Reconstruction included Confederate states adopting the 13th amendment and 10% of voters taking loyalty oaths
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan or Lincoln's Reconstruction Plan?
200
Compromise that admitted California as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Laws, and granted popular sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico territories
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300
Court case that decided slaves were not citizens and therefore could not sue in court
What is Dred Scott v Sandford or the Dred Scott Decision?
300
Lincoln passed the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle
What is the Battle of Antietam?
300
Lincoln suspended this legal action that prohibited arbitrary arrest
What is Habeas Corpus?
300
This president following Lincoln's assassination vetoed 9 bills from Congress including the 14th amendment
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
This act would have prohibited slavery in all land gained from the Mexican-American War
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
400
President Franklin Pierce's controversial attempt to buy Cuba is known as this
What is the Ostend Manifesto?
400
William Tecumseh Sherman's total war trek from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Columbia, South Carolina, left Atlanta, Georgia in ruins
What is the March to the Sea?
400
A slang term for Peace Democrats
What are Copperheads?
400
These governments in the South passed laws such as the Black Codes to limit freedmen's rights
What are Redeemer governments?
400
This amendment caused the women's suffrage movement to split into 2 groups, the National Woman Suffrage Association and the American Woman Suffrage Association
What is the 15th amendment?
500
Nickname for Missourians who traveled to Kansas to vote on slavery
What are Border Ruffians?
500
Lincoln replaced this general after the Battle of Antietam, accusing him of not being aggressive enough
Who is George McClellan?
500
Another term for the draft which both the Union and Confederacy implemented
What is conscript?
500
The 14th amendment was undercut by a group of decisions made known collectively as these
What are the Slaughter-House Cases?
500
Scandals like the Credit Mobilier and the Whiskey Ring tarnished this president's name and started the wane of radical reforms