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The Union In Crisis
The Early Years of the War
Turning points and effects of the war
Reconstruction
RANDOM
100
The principle that voters would decide whether or not a state would be free or slave.
What is Popular Sovereignty
100
A Union Strategy to divide the CSA in half at the Mississippi River and cut off all Confederate resources
What is Anaconda Plan
100
Gettysburg and the siege of Vicksburg were both turning points in the war, and both ended on this day
What is July 4, 1863
100
Where workers shared a portion of the harvest with landowners in exchange for a place to live
What is Sharecropping
100
Extremists within the party of Lincoln who felt the South committed crimes and needed to pay and wanted equality for freedmen
What is Radical Republicans
200
On the eve of the Civil War there were about how many slaves in the Southern States
What is 3.5 Million
200
What was the significance of the battle of Antietam
What is Bloodiest single day, Abe Lincoln issues Emancipation, First Battle fought on Union soil
200
Stonewall Jackson fell at this battle, one of Lee's greatest victories.
What is Chancellorsville
200
The Wade David Bill called for this percentage of voters to swear loyalty to the Union before a state could be readmitted.
What is majority
200
The initial shots fired in South Carolina took place at this fortification
What is Fort Sumter
300
What was the significance of Uncle Tom's Cabin
What is showed the horrors of slavery, persuaded many northerners to join the abolition movement
300
Why were casualties seemingly so much higher in the Civil War than previous American conflicts?
What is better technology (weapons) and old tactics
300
About how many soldiers fell at Gettysburg from both sides?
What is 50,000
300
A northerner who came south for economic or political opportunity were labeled this derogatory term by southerners
What is carpetbagger
300
Name 3 new types of weapons/technology that played a role during the Civil War
What is minie ball, ironclad, mobile artillery, henry rifle, telegraph, railroad, etc.
400
The Fugitive Slave Act stated:
What is anyone finding a runaway slave must assist in returning them to their southern "owner"
400
List 4 advantages for the North, List 4 advantages for the South
What is North- material goods, rail lines, communication, gov't, Lincoln, wealth, trade partners, navy Industry… south- military leadership, home field, cause, military schools, sharpshooters
400
These amendments were added to the Constitution following the Civil War.
What is 13th/14th
400
Name 3 successes of Reconstruction
What is advancement of African Americans, housing, education, jobs, voting, 13-15 amendment, reunited country, solidified federal power, helped economic recovery, rebuilt infrastructure
400
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act do?
What is granted PS in Kansas and Neb territories
500
Name the 4 parts of the Compromise of 1850
What is PS is Utah and NM, Slave Trade banned in DC, New stricter FSL, and California Admitted as a Free State
500
What was Total War, who were the two Union generals who sought to use this strategy to end the war
What is destroying civilian targets as well as military targets, destroy infrastructure and resources, kill will of southerners; William T Sherman, US Grant
500
Name one social, one government and one economic effect of the Civil War:
What is various answers
500
What did the compromise of 1877 do?
What is federal troops removed from the south, federal govt subsidized economic recovery, ended reconstruction
500
Name 3 political parties that existed during the 1850s
What is Republican, Democrat, Free Soil, Know Nothing, Whigs, Constitutional Unionist