Slavery and Expansion
The invention that led to an increased reliance on slavery in the Deep South.
Cotton Gin
Other than slavery specifically, what was the other main reason that southerners often gave for justifying secession. What ideology? Hint: 10th Amendment.
States' Rights
1. Where the first shots were fired in the Civil War
2. Which side fired first: Union or Confederacy?
1. Fort Sumter
2. Confederacy
hat group used violence to intimidate African Americans from exercising freedoms (abbreviation)
KKK
The last names of the Senators involved in the "affair" where one beat the other with a cane for disrespecting the South in Congress.
Brooks and Sumner
The famous book written by Harriett Beecher Stowe abut the cruelties of slavery
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The court case that denied Black citizenship and ruled that all congressional attempts to limit the spread of slavery was unconstitutional.
Scott v. Sanford
This sought to free slaves in the South, in states that were in open rebellion.
Emancipation Proclamation
What were the two of the three ways that the South tried to infringe the right to vote from African Americans
1. Literacy Tests
2. Poll Taxes
3. Violence/intimidation
The party that formed to stop the spread of slavery out west.
Free Soil Party
1. This state was annexed after they won a war for their independence against Mexico.
2. The territory that was shared jointly by the US and Great Britain in the American NW that was officially added to the county after 54-40 or Fight!
3. What was the state/territory that experienced a Gold Rush in 1848, growing their population.
1. Texas
2. Oregon
3. California
1. The mini civil war that erupted over the vote on whether to include slaves in a Midwestern territory.
2. He led the raid on Harper's Ferry in Virginia in hopes of starting a slave rebellion that would end slavery.
1. Bleeding Kansas
2. John Brown
1. The speech Lincoln gave to dedicate a national cemetery that helped to add the end of slavery to the purpose of the Civil War.
2. The speech Lincoln gave that called for the end of slavery, hopes for a speedy end of the war, and called for reconciliation not retribution after the war
1. Gettysburg Address
2. 2nd Inaugural Address
1. The president impeached over disagreements with Congress over how much the South should have to do to return to the country
2. The law that president violated that justified impeachment
1. Andrew Johnson
2. Tenure of Office Act
Informal network that slaves used to escape up north
1. Underground Railroad
1.The name for the diverse group of activists that sought to end slavery
2. Name one significant person that was a part of this group
3. The most famous publication produced by members of this movement
1. Abolitionists
2. Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, Solomon Northup, Grimke Sisters, Harriett Tubman etc.
3. The Liberator
1. His election in 1860 led to Civil War and the party he represented
2. The first state that seceded
3. Those that seceded formed the _______ (can ne one word)
4. The president of this new "country"
1. Lincoln, Republican
2. South Carolina
3. Confederacy, or Confederate States of America
4. Jefferson Davis
1. The Union strategy that called for blockades and securing the Miss. River.
2. Name the two prominent military leaders of the South.
1. Anaconda Plan
2. Robert E Lee, Stonewall Jackson
1. the three amendments during this time
2. What did each do, you can use my phrase
1. 13th, 14th, and 15th
2. Free, Citizens, Vote
What event helped to secure Lincoln's reelection in 1864
Sherman's March to the Sea
1. The belief that Americans were destined by God to spread from coast to coast.
2. Which President is most identified as being connected to this term.
3. The war Americans fought against a foreign power after "American blood was shed on American soil"
4. What Treaty ended that war
5. Name one modern state that developed out of the land acquired.
1. Manifest Destiny
2. James K. Polk
3. Mexican American War
4. Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
5. California, Texas (part of), New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada.
1. List three laws that tried, but failed, to settle the issue of the expansion of slavery.
2. The right of a new territory to have a democratic vote to decide if their new state would allow slavery.
3. The politician that proposed #2 in the remaining areas of the Louisiana Purchase territory and was eventually a candidate for President in 1860.
1. Missouri Compromise (1820), Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, and Wilmot Proviso
2. Popular Sovereignty
3. Stephen Douglass
1. Bloodiest single day of the war occurred at this battle
2. Major Union victory in Penn. made the CSA give up on invading the North, the bloodiest battle
3. Major railway hub in the South that was targeted and captured by Gen. Sherman
4. Secured Union control over the Miss River
5. Commanding General of the Union Army when the war was over.
1. Antietam
2. Gettysburg
3. Atlanta
4. Vicksburg
5. U. Grant
1. Write the word noise backwards and place a dot over what would be its second letter should it have been written forward.
2. Spell backwards, forwards
3. Draw a figure that is square in shape, Divide it in half by drawing a straight line from its northeast corner to its southwest corner, and then divide it once more by drawing a broken line from the middle of its western side to the middle of its eastern side.
1. esion. dot over O.
2. backwards
3.
List 3 things that the Compromise of 1850 did
1. California as a Free State
2. Popular Sovereignty
3. Fugitive Slave Law
4. Slave trade outlawed in DC