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Civil WarRoad to War

Road to War

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This man tried to capture the arsenal at Harper’s Ferry and start a slave revolt in Virginia; he was tried and executed for treason but viewed as a hero by some in the North

Who is John Brown?

Road to War

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What is secession?

Road to War 200

When the southern states vote to leave the United States and become their own country

This forbid Congress from considering any bill on the topic of slavery?

Road to War

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What is the Gag Rule?

Road to War

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This book became very popular in theNorth and showed many the Inhumanity of slavery, banned in the South

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Road to War

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What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Explain the core value of the Free Soil and the Republican Party.

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Road to War

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No expansion of slavery into new territories; it can continue to exist

where it is

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What were the terms of the Missouri Compromise?

Compromises –Points 100

Maine a free state, Missouri a slave state, line drawn at southern

border of Missouri- slave below, free above

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This idea said that the people of each territory should vote and decide whether to have

slavery or not, causes Bleeding Kansas

What is popular sovereignty?

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Name two parts of the Compromise of 1850.

Compromises –Points 300

California as a free state, Arizona and Utah territories have popular sovereignty, slave trade illegal in

Washington, D.C., harsher fugitive slave law

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What was the Wilmot Proviso and what was it a response to?

Response to land taken in Mexican War, forbids any new land taken from Mexico from being made slave territories, defeated when Southerners

threaten to secede if it passes

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Explain what happens in the Dred Scott case. Why is this

important?

Slave taken to free territories and a free state. Court rules that slaves are property and have no rights to go to court and are property and can be taken anywhere (this means slavery cannot be made illegal anywhere)

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Civil War Points 100

What event convinces the first seven states to secede

election of Abraham Lincoln as president

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Name the most famous general for the North and

for the South

North- U.S. Grant

South- Robert E. Lee

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Why is Antietam important?

Civil War Points 300

Bloodiest day in US history, after the victory,

Lincoln issues the Emancipation Proclamation

Civil War Points 400

Where is the last battle of the Civil War (where Robert E. Lee surrenders)

Civil War Points 400

Appomattox Courthouse, Virginia

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Explain the Northern and Southern strategies during

the war

North- Anaconda Plan, capture Richmond, control Mississippi River,

blockade the coastSouth- defensive war, outlast the

north, convince northern public the war wasn’t worth the cost

Civil War Points 500

ReconstructionPoints 100

This amendment abolishes slavery forever

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What is the 13th amendment?

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What was Lincoln’s plan for Reconstruction?

10 percent plan, 10 percent of the 1860 population had to swear to be loyal to the US,

wanted to restore the country quickly

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What are the three groups who support the Republican

Party in the South?

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Scalawags- white Southerners who either never supported secession or

decide to work with the RepublicansCarpetbaggers- Northerners who move south to invest or to teach

freedmenFreedmen- biggest part

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Why does Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction

plan fail?

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Unable to compromise with Congress, fires the

Secretary without telling Congress, impeached and 1

vote away from being removed, powerless

afterwards

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What is the difference between Presidential and

Congressional Reconstruction?

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Presidential- forgives the white south, doesn’t really try and help african americans, goal is fast restoration of the unionCongressional- want to punish the white South, give rights/aid to African Americans through giving them the vote and the Freedmen’s Bureau

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This is one of the two names for laws passed in the South that took rights away from African Americans

Black Codes (Jim Crow laws)

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What ends Reconstruction?

Compromise of 1877- Republican Rutherford B. Hayes given Presidency,

takes all Union soldiers out of the South

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What was the secret organizationthat used violence and threats

to keep blacks from voting

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KKK

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What happens to Abraham Lincoln?

Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth

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What are three ways the Redeemer governments keep blacks from using

their rights?

Poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy tests

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Topic: Slavery

What was two arguments for and two arguments against

slavery?