People
Lead a raid on the arsenal at Harpers Ferry in an attempt to start a slave rebellion
Who is John Brown
Name for a person who wanted slavery to end
What is an abolitionist?
Required people to help in the capture and return of escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
Prequel to the Civil War during which pro and anti-slavery voters fought each other in Kansas over the issue of slavery
What was Bleeding Kansas?
Name for people who fought for slavery in Kansas during Bleeding Kansas
Who are Border Ruffians?
Assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Famous before for being an actor
Who is John Wilkes Booth
Unit made up of African American volunteers who fought for the Union and gained fame at the Battle of Fort Wagner
Who was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Maintained the balance of free and slave states but prevented any state north of the 36 30 line from allowing slavery in the future
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Speech given by Lincoln that, while being short, reinforced the goals of the war as a fight for freedom and justice
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
General of the Confederate Army that surrendered at Appomattox Court House
Who is Robert E. Lee
Laws that segregated people by race in the post-Civil War South
What were Jim Crow laws?
Act that allowed territories to use popular sovereignty to determine whether they should allow slavery. Effectively overturned the Missouri Compromise
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
Violent protests in the streets of NYC against the required draft of soldiers to the Union Army
What were the NYC Draft Riots?
Name for the side that fought for slavery
What is the Confederacy?
Union general who gained famed in the west for victories like Vicksburg before leading the entire Union Army.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
The three Reconstruction Amendments
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
This plan split the South into 5 military districts, required states ratify the 14th Amendment, and write new state constitutions before being let back into the Union
What was the Radical Reconstruction Act?
Supreme Court ruling that stated African Americans were not citizens of the United States
What was the Dred Scott case?
What a casualty in war refers to
What is killed, wounded, or missing / captured?
Union general who lead a march across the South in an effort to destroy Southern morale and the economy
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman
Test given to black voters that were designed to prevent them from voting
What were literacy tests?
Plan that would require only 10% of a state's population to swear allegiance to the U.S. and to abolish slavery
What was Lincoln's 10% Plan for Reconstruction?
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
Location where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant
What is Appomattox Courthouse