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Reconstruction
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100
This organization was viewed as an interfering agency that threatened white dominance.
What is the Freemen's Bureau?
100
By 1860, most slaves were located in this area.
What is the Black Belt of the Deep South?
100
This book made any type of intervention by the British difficult because it would not be support by the common people.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
One of the key reasons that the Union stopped Lee's first invasion of the North was the discovery of Lee's battle plans.
What is Antietam?
100
This man raided Harper's Ferry hoping to incite a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
200
White resentment at the success of blacks in politics led to the formation of this group.
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
200
Part of this law included a higher payment for officials if it was determined that blacks were actually runaways.
What is the Fugitive Slave law?
200
This product ended up being more important to the British than King Cotton.
What is grain?
200
When Lee drove the Union armies back during the Peninsula campaign, this became the new Union war strategy.
What is total warfare?
200
The class between these two legislatures showed that the issue of slavery was becoming very tense.
Who are Brooks and Sumner?
300
In order for a Confederate State to reenter the Union they had to give freed blacks the right vote and this.
What is ratify the Fourteenth Amendment?
300
Slavery was legally abolished by this amendment.
What is the Thirteenth?
300
The British compromise on the boundaries of this territory because they didn't believe it was worth going to war over.
What is the Oregon Country?
300
This general always believed that the enemy had more people than they really did which made him overly cautious.
Who is George McClellan?
300
In 1867 Secretary of State Seward successfully purchase this place from the Russians.
What is Alaska?
400
This showed a deep divide be President Lincoln and Congress towards reconstruction.
What is the Wade-Davis Bill?
400
The most outrageous part of this case was the Congress did not have the power to deny slavery in any territory.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
400
During the Civil War, this incident which involved removing Confederate diplomats off a British ship nearly resulted in war.
What is the Trent Affair?
400
This was the greatest hardship faced by soldiers during the Civil War.
What is disease?
400
The election of 1852 saw an end to this political party.
What is the Whigs?
500
In 1868, all the former Confederate leaders including those serving jail terms were given this.
What is a pardon?
500
This was introduced into congress in order to ban slavery from all territories gained from Mexico.
What is the Wilmot Proviso?
500
After the defeat of the South at Gettysburg and this place, British aid was lost for good.
What is Vicksburg?
500
Grant finally excepted Lee's surrender here.
What is Appomattox?
500
This panic saw resentment from the British because many states defaulted on their debts.
What is the Panic of 1837?