Pre-Civil War Pt. 1
"Terrorist" in the South and "Patriot" in the North who led a violent slave revolt on Harper's Ferry, Virginia; was hanged for his crimes.
Who is John Brown?
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
He was the famed commanding general of the Confederate Army during the Civil War.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
This Constitutional amendment officially abolished slavery at the end of 1865.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Harriot Tubman conducted a secret system to lead escaping slaves from the South into the free North, known as this.
What is the underground railroad?
This was a famous Supreme Court case that ruled slaves do not have rights that white people are obligated to honor.
What was Dred Scott v. Sanford?
While this did not immediately free any slaves in the South, it did give a moral purpose for the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President Lincoln gave this speech in November of 1863 to dedicate a cemetery to the fallen soldiers of the battle and called for the country to unite as a free nation.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This president became the first ever US president to be impeached.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This means "giving the people the right to choose", in this case voting whether or not to legalize slavery in their territories.
What is popular sovereignty?
He was a a U.S. Senator strongly against slavery, who got violently attacked with a cane after giving an anti-slavery speech on the Senate floor.
Who was Charles Sumner?
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought in this Northern state.
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the name of the Union plan for victory, by surrounding and suffocating the Confederates into submission.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
African Americans and poor whites went back to farming for rich planters under this system, which gave a portion of their crops to the landowners. This system made poor people in the South economically dependent on rich landowners.
What is sharecropping?
This was the amount of electoral votes Abraham Lincoln got from the Southern States in the 1860 presidential election.
What are none; zero?
This compromise delayed a civil war by agreeing to bring in California as a free state, while the South gets a strong fugitive slave law passed.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This Union general blazed through entire towns and liberated slaves in the South. He wanted to "make Georgia Howl".
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This battle was a two month-long siege by the Union army. It resulted in the Union taking Mississippi and successfully splitting the Confederate army in two.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
These were white Southerners, sympathetic to helping African Americans, who joined the Republican party after the Civil War.
Who were Scalawags?
Who is Stephen Douglas?
A term that came to define the first have of the 1800's, it describes how states put their own interests ahead of national interests, which divided the North and South.
What is sectionalism?
What is Appomattox Court House?
This was the first major engagement of the Civil War. It resulted in a Confederate victory and solidified their strategy to fight a defensive war.
What is the first Battle of Bull Run?
This federal organization set up immediate relief in the South to newly-freed slaves, by providing them shelter, food, medicine, and other needed supplies.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?