Event that outraged South Carolina and led them to secede from the Union
What is the Election of 1860 (or Lincoln's Election)?
100
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
100
First failed Confederate invasion of the North; bloodiest single day of fighting in the Civil War?
What is Antietam?
100
Banned slavery north of the 36 30 N latitude line in the territory of the Louisiana Purchase territory; maintained the balance of slave and free states
What is the Missouri Compromise?
100
Abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th amendment?
200
Supreme Court decision that denied African Americans' citizenship and declared the idea of free soil unconstitutional
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
200
Turned down Lincoln's offer to command the Union forces when Virgina seceded
Who is Robert E. Lee?
200
Brutal strategy that helped the Union win the war and Lincoln win re-election
What is Sherman's March to the Sea (or total war)?
200
Democratic principle used in both the Compromise of 1850 and Kansas-Nebraska Act
What is popular soverignty?
200
Program created by Congress to help the newly freed slaves
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
300
Repealed the Missouri Compromise by reopening the northern part of the Louisiana Territory to the possibility of slavery with the concept of popular sovereignty
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
Most famous for her work helping other slaves escape via the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
300
Diplomatic document that made it hard for European nations to recognize and support the Confederacy
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
Gave African Americans citizenship
What is the 14th amendment?
300
Two people who supported QUICKLY giving power back to the state governments in the South
Who are Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson?
400
Part of the Compromise of 1850 that Southerners were most happy about
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
400
Called the "little lady who started the war" by Lincoln
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
400
Gave the North control of the Mississippi River; considered the turning point in the West during the Civil War
What is Vicksburg?
400
Union strategy during the Civil War; involved a naval blockade of the Confederacy and capturing the Mississippi River; proposed by General Scott
What is the Anaconda Plan?
400
How the federal government showed their power over the state governments during Reconstruction; enacted by the Radical Republicans
What is the military occupation of the South (or Military Reconstruction)?
500
Result of the Kansas-Nebraska Act's use of the idea of popular sovereignty
What is "Bleeding Kansas" (or violent conflict)?
500
Two men who led failed slave revolts before the Civil War
Who are John Brown and Nat Turner?
500
Reason why the South thought they would win the Civil War; never actually materialized
What is British and French support (or Cotton Diplomacy)?
500
Removed federal troops from the South and made Rutherford B. Hayes President; also gave the Democrats some cabinet positions
What is the Compromise of 1877?
500
Controversial law behind Andrew Johnson's impeachment