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CompromisesReconstructionNew South 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points 100 Points 200 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points 300 Points 400 Points 500 Points Civil WarRoad to War

Points 100 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 Points 100

Road to War Points 200 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 Points 300

What is the Gag Rule? Road to War Points 300

This book became very popular in the North and showed many the Inhumanity of slavery, banned in the South Road to War Points 400

Road to War Points 400 What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe?

Explain the core value of the Free Soil and the Republican Party. Road to War 500 points

Road to War Points 500 No expansion of slavery into new territories; it can continue to exist where it is

Compromises –Points 100 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

Compromises –Points 200 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? Compromises Points 200

Name two parts of the Compromise of 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 Compromises –Points 300

Compromises –Points 400 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 Compromises –Points 400

Compromises –Points 500 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) Compromises Points 500

Civil War Points 100 What event convinces the first seven states to secede

election of Abraham Lincoln as president Civil War Points 100

Civil War Points 200 Name the most famous general for the North and for the South

North- U.S. Grant South- Robert E. Lee Civil War Points 200

Civil War Points 300 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

Civil War Points – 500 Explain the Northern and Southern strategies during the war

North- Anaconda Plan, capture Richmond, control Mississippi River, blockade the coast South- defensive war, outlast the north, convince northern public the war wasn’t worth the cost Civil War Points 500

Reconstruction Points 100 This amendment abolishes slavery forever

Reconstruction Points 100 What is the 13 th amendment?

Reconstruction Points 200 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 Reconstruction Points 200

Reconstruction Points 300 What are the three groups who support the Republican Party in the South?

Reconstruction Points 300 Scalawags- white Southerners who either never supported secession or decide to work with the Republicans Carpetbaggers- Northerners who move south to invest or to teach freedmen Freedmen- biggest part

Reconstruction Points 400 Why does Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction plan fail?

Reconstruction Points 400 Unable to compromise with Congress, fires the Secretary without telling Congress, impeached and 1 vote away from being removed, powerless afterwards

Reconstruction Points 500 What is the difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?

Reconstruction Points 500 Presidential- forgives the white south, doesn’t really try and help african americans, goal is fast restoration of the union Congressional- want to punish the white South, give rights/aid to African Americans through giving them the vote and the Freedmen’s Bureau

New South Points 100 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) New South Points 100

New South Points 200 What ends Reconstruction?

Compromise of Republican Rutherford B. Hayes given Presidency, takes all Union soldiers out of the South New South Points 200

What was the secret organization that used violence and threats to keep blacks from voting New South Points 300

New South Points 300 KKK

New South Points 400 What happens to Abraham Lincoln?

Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth New South Points 400

New South Points 500 What are three ways the Redeemer governments keep blacks from using their rights?

Poll tax, grandfather clause, literacy tests New South Points 500

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Topic: Slavery

What was two arguments for and two arguments against slavery?