Major Causes of the Civil War
When Lincoln was elected, many of the southern states decided they no longer wanted to be a part of the United States. They felt that they had every right to leave. This was called what?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What was the system of agriculture that emerged in the Southern United States after the Civil War, in which landless farmers worked on land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops produced?
What is sharecropping
This is the capital city of Russia.
What is Moscow?
Belief that the United States was on a "divine mission" to spread to the Pacific.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This was considered the first "battle" of the Civil War in 1861. It took place in South Carolina.
Describe the "new south"
industrialized
southern society changed - built textile mills, manufactured goods, etc.
Another term for the South during the Civil War
What is the Confederacy?
Fremd High School is part of this athletic conference.
What is the mid-suburban league?
This is a political leader who seeks support by appealing to the desires and prejudices of ordinary people rather than by using rational arguments.
What is a demagogue?
In this ruling, the U.S. Supreme Court stated that enslaved people were not citizens of the United States and, therefore, could not expect any protection from the federal government or the courts.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857)?
What was the decision of Plessy v. Ferguson?
segregation was legal; "separate but equal"
This was a period of time in which the US government worked to RECONSTRUCT the Union and reunite the states
What is Reconstruction?
This is the process by which plants make their own food.
What is photosynthesis?
This is how many members are in the House of Representatives.
What is 435 members?
In 1820, Congress reached a series of agreements that admitted Maine as a slave state and ____ as a free state. This became known as the ___________.
What is Missouri; Missouri Compromise.
What was the 15th Amendment?
Made it unconstitutional for states to deny citizens the right to vote because of their "race, color, or previous condition of servitude"
Promoting the interests of a section or region (such as the North or the South) instead of the entire country.
What is sectionalism?
Ebay's logo is made up of these 4 colors.
Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green
This is the term used to describe when a government can take private land for public use.
What is eminent domain?
The ultimate political power resides with the people, who have the right to govern themselves and participate in the decision-making process.
Kansas-Nebraska Act established popular sovereignty KS/NE got added as territories
What is the difference between scalawags and carpetbaggers?
Carpetbaggers - northerners who wanted to move to the south after the war
Scalawags - Southern Republicans
A term often used to describe the United States of America BEFORE the outbreak of the Civil War.
What is antebellum?
This is how old Ms. Miles is turning in December
What is 28 years old?
This is the line of succession for presidency in the United States (president, then ____, and ____, and ____)
What is the president, vice president, speaker of the house, president pro tempore of the senate