Peculiar Institution
Mid-19th Century Cash Crop
Cotton
Reform movement of Dorothea Dix
Asylum and Hospital
What event started the fighting of the Civil War?
Attack on Fort Sumter
Abolished slavery throughout the United States.
Thirteenth Amendment
It sought to guarantee that one could not be denied suffrage rights based on race.
Fifteenth Amendment
A fugitive slave who risked her life many times to bring others out of slavery.
Harriet Tubman
This rule prevented Congress from taking up antislavery bills and petitions.
Gag Rule
Supreme Court case that determined only white people could be U.S. Citizens
Dred Scott v. Sanford
The Monitor and Merrimack were what new type of war technology?
Iron-clad ships
It made notable achievements in improving African-American education and health care.
Freedman's Bureau
The most powerful weapon slave masters had for maintaining order
Threat of being sold and sent away from friends and family
Who felt public schools would help create social stability and personal advancement?
Horace Mann
Key provision to the Compromise of 1850
Northerners who were opposed to the war
Copperheads
Forty-acre tracts of land in South Carolina and Georgia for black families
Sherman's Special Field Orders No. 15
The antebellum hierarchical society in which the planter took responsibility for the lives of those around him
Paternalism
The Declaration of Sentiments issued by the Seneca Falls Convention was modeled on which document?
Declaration of Independence
Why did slavery become a key political topic during the 1840s?
Manifest destiny/ expansion to new territories challenged slavery question.
Role of slaves and the Confederate army
Laborers within the military
Early 1868 action by Andrew Johnson sparked his impeachment
The economic effect of southern slavery on northern free states
Southern slavery helped finance industrialization and internal improvements in the North.
The abolitionist movement split into two different wings in 1840 primarily over what issue?
whether or not women should take a public role in antislavery work
Wilmot Proviso, admission of California into the Union, and the Missouri Compromise focused on which issue?
determining how extension of slavery should be handled
2 turning points in favor of the Union
Gettysburg, Pennsylvania and Vicksburg, Mississippi
Designed to stop the activities of terrorist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan
Enforcement Acts