Vocabulary
This is a Latin word that means 'before the war.'
What is Antebellum
Before the Civil War, the primary belief of these states was that states should have the ability to govern themselves.
What are Southern States?
This state threatened to leave the Union due to the threat of tariffs during the Nullification Crisis.
What is South Carolina?
This was the site of the beginning of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter, South Carolina?
These were the years of the official Reconstruction effort in the U.S. following the Civil War.
What is 1865-1877?
A person who was in favor of ending slavery.
What is an abolitionist.
The economy was based on industry and the railroads. Had little agriculture due to short growing season.
What are the Northern States?
After the Missouri Compromise, this line became the official cut off for Free States versus Slave States. No slave states after Missouri could be admitted above this line.
What is the 36,30 line of Latitude?
This was the name of the Union plan to cut the South off from the rest of the world.
What is the Union Blockade or Anaconda Plan?
These are the Reconstruction Amendements.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
The period in U.S history from 1865-1877.
What is Reconstruction?
Before the Civil War, half of Georgia's wealth was based on
What is Slaves?
This was the amount of people that were candidates for the 1860 presidential campaign and the winner of the 1860 election.
What is 4 candidates and Abraham Lincoln?
This announcement from Abraham Lincoln declared the abolition of all slaves in southern held territories. He also gave the South an ultimatum that stated.....
What is the Emancipation Proclamation and that if any Southern state surrendered before January 1st 1863 they could keep their slaves?
These were two things that Southern states were required to do before rejoining the Union under the Johnson Reconstruction Plan.
What is Nullify Secession, Ratify the 13th Amendment, and Agree to no repay any loans to the Confederacy?
This term means to do away with or to void(erase) something.
What is nullify?
Prior to the Civil War, the cost of slaves was related to the
What is the cost of Cotton?
This was the Supreme Court decision regarding the case of Dred Scott.
What is the court decided that Dred Scott did not have a right to petition the court because he was a slave and as such, had no rights to sue.
The Battle of Chickamauga was important for the North and South because of its proximity to Chattanooga. These were two reasons that Chattanooga was an important city.
What is it was important because of railroads and its location on the Tennessee River.
These were the two reasons that African American legislators were kicked out of the Georgia Legislature in 1868.
What is false charges of were made up against them and it was said that the Georgia Constitution allowed African Americans to vote but not to hold public office.
States like Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, and Missouri were these during the Civil War. They were a mix of Northern Economy and Southern Culture.
What are Border States?
Name two characteristics of the North prior to the Civil War.
What is economy was based on industry and railroads, persons social status was based on wealth and could change, larger population.
These were three provisions that were included in the Compromise of 1850.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act, Slave trading ended in Washington D.C., California admitted to the Union as a Free State, Popular Sovereignty in the Utah and New Mexico Territories.
Abraham Lincoln issued this in September of 1862 following the Battle of Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These were two things done by the Congressional Reconstruction Plan.
What is created 5 military districts in the South, Required all southern state write new state constitutions, and created the Reconstruction Acts.