Religion and Culture
Lead by Joseph Smith, this new church emerged and relocated to Utah in 1830 because of persecution.
What are Mormons (Church of Latter-Day Saints)?
Federal laws that allowed for the capture and return of escaped slaves
What were Fugitive Slave Laws?
Welfare agency for freed slaves and refugees, funded education, food, and shelter
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
Was the economy better or worse off after ending the Civil War?
What is so bad and terrible the inflation was very bad?
Who was the president during the Civil War?
Who was Abraham Lincoln?
1800s movement calling for the ban of alcohol
What was Temperance?
Required all free states to be admitted with a matching slave state, banned slavery past the 36 30' line
Provided grants for Great Plains land to anyone who would agree to work the land for 5 years
What was the Homestead Act?
True or False: Lincoln was eager to combat the Confederacy
False- Lincoln hoped to avoid war at all costs
The president after Lincoln's assassination, lead Reconstruction
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Wave of religious revival, starting in the south around 1800. Meant to combat liberalism of Unitarians.
What was the Second Great Awakening?
Crushed rebellion by a Black preacher in Virginia
Nat Turner Rebellion
Amendment that bans racial discrimination from voting
Name 2 advantages of the Union in the Civil War
Greater population, strong economy (rich), had a good navy, had a railroad system, strong central government
President who was anti-federal bank for fear of too much federal power
Who was Andrew Jackson?
Landmark feminist convention demanding suffrage and education in which the Declaration of Sentiments was first read
What was the Seneca Falls Convention?
What was the 13th Ammendment?
Which act secured African Americans' right to citizenship and combated Black codes?
What was the Civil Rights Act of 1866?
Name 3 members of the original Confederacy
Georgia, Florida, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana
1850s nativist, anti-immigration and highly secretive party, Millard Fillmore's party
What was the Know-Nothing Party?
Female school teacher traveling to prisons and asylums calling for reforms, leader of women in 1800s reform
Who was Dorothea Dix?
Supreme court hearing that said that an enslaved man held in Missouri and then Wisconsin was still not free- established that slavery can be legal everywhere
What was Dred Scott V. Sandford?
Agreement that California be admitted as a free state, Mexico and Utah become popular sovereignty, ban slave trade in Washington DC, and enforce the fugitive slave law
First battle of the Civil War, in South Carolina, 1861
What was the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Republican war general elected in 1868, voted in largely by freedmen
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?