"The Middle" Compromise & Conflict
People, Places, and Policy
Well...THAT Escalated Quickly...
Who's Who (and What's What) During the Reconstruction
10% Luck, 20% Skill, 100% Reconstruction FAIL
200

Both the Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 were intended to settle disputes over THIS.

The Spread of Slavery

200

THIS radical abolitionist is most associated with Bleeding Kansas and the raid on Harpers Ferry.

John Brown

200

The "spark" that officially began the US Civil War.

The Attack on Fort Sumter

200

Northerners (with very interesting bags made of a household textile floor covering) who migrated to make a living and profit in the devastated South.

Carpetbaggers

200

These restrictive laws were passed by Southern states in order to limit the freedoms of African American citizens and force them into cheap agricultural labor, prohibiting them from exercising the same civil rights as the white citizens.

The Black Codes

400

The Compromise of 1850 created a stricter Fugitive Slave Law, brought in California as a free state, and made THIS the determining factor whether a new state would be free or slave.

Popular Sovereignty

400

Supreme Court case that ruled that no African-American, enslaved or free, was a citizen and overturned the Missouri Compromise

Dred Scott v. Sandford

400

The bloodiest single day of the war, resulting from Robert E Lee's first attempt to go on the offensive

Battle of Antietam

400

The agency established by Congress to train teachers, build schools, and assist formerly enslaved people to adjust to their new live as free people

Freedman's Bureau

400

This Amendment that abolished slavery and involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for a crime.

13th Amendment

600

Both pro- and antislavery settlers rushed to THIS state and ended up in a violent conflict over the vote whether to make it a slave or free state.

Kansas

600

The Union General whose Atlanta Campaign and "March to the Sea" brought the South into ruin and broke the South's will to fight.

William T Sherman

600

Divided the South in two with the capture of the last Confederate stronghold along the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

600

Andrew Johnson's impeachment was based on Congress's accusation that he violated THIS policy when he removed Secretary of War Edwin Stanton from his office.

Tenure of Office Act

600

Laws that enforced racial segregation and the disenfranchisement of Black Americans 

Jim Crow laws

800

Westward Expansion and "Manifest Destiny" would further drive the nation into conflict that would ultimately lead to the Civil War. THIS was the big issue that became the point of contention.

Slavery

800

The first and ONLY president of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

800

The turning point of the war that left the Confederate Army crippled and unable to go on the offensive again

Battle of Gettysburg

800

THIS group wanted the South punished for treason, implemented martial law, and believed Freedmen’s rights should be granted by the U.S. government.

Radical Republicans

800

This court case made legal the idea of "separate but equal."

Plessy v. Ferguson

1000

THIS event directly occurred as a result of the 1860 presidential election.

Southern Secession (starting with South Carolina)

1000

Became the 17th president of the US when his predecessor was assassinated in Ford Theatre by a South sympathizing actor.

Andrew Johnson

1000

The span of years in which the Civil War took place

1861-1865

1000

His election, while HIGHLY controversial, led to the compromise that ended the Reconstruction Era.

Rutherford B Hayes

1000

Southern Democrats wanted federal troops withdrawn from the South and voting rights of the freedmen decided by state governments...these became components of THIS agreement that ended Reconstruction.

Compromise of 1877