What political party was created in protest to the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Republican Party
Maybe the most famous 'conductor' of the underground railroad, this individual traveled to the South over a dozen times in an effort to assist runaway slaves in gaining their freedom.
Harriet Tubman
The presidential slogan: "54º-40' or Fight" applies to which area of land?
Oregon Territory
What President's administration is BEST connected to the Manifest Destiny era?
James K. Polk
What did Abraham Lincoln, an Illinois Congressman, propose in response to the U.S. declaration of war against Mexico?
The 'Spot Resolution'
Identify ONE component of the 14th Amendment.
granted citizenship to freedmen; guaranteed citizens equal protection under the law; no state can deprive any person of life/liberty/property, w/o due process
What landmark Supreme Court case declared segregation constitutional under the principle of 'separate but equal?'
Plessy v. Ferguson
What was the status of slavery in the Kansas and Nebraska terriories (the purple areas depicted on the map) per the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
popular sovereignty was used; settlers who lived in those territories voted as to whether they would be slave or free
In 1860 what was the Republican Party's platform regarding slavery?
The party was against the spread of slavery into the western territories
Identify ONE provision of the Compromise of 1850.
California entered the union as a free state; popular sovereignty in Utah and New Mexico territories; no slave auctions in D.C.; stronger fugitive slave law
Identify the president that attempted to bring an end to the KKK and used the military to protect freedmen civil rights in the South during Reconstruction.
President Ulysses S. Grant
What other country laid claim to the Oregon Territory and was the target of the '54˚-40' or Fight' slogan?
Great Britain (England)
Who is pictured in this image?
Ulysses S. Grant
What is the name given to this region [marked in red]?
Mexican Cession
Pictured here this is the name given to the trans-Atlantic voyage of enslaved persons to the Western Hemisphere.
Middle Passage
In this Civil War reenactment photograph, what army is being depicted? (Union or Confederate)
The Union army (blue uniforms)
Within two decades following Reconstruction, white Southern Democrat controlled state governments created a series of segregation legislation better known by THIS nickname.
Jim Crow laws
What Congressional program was created to assist freed slaves by providing them help to reunite families, find work, and provide educational opportunities after the Civil War.
Freedmen's Bureau
Where did General Lee surrender his Confederate army to General Grant which basically brought the Civil War to an end?
Appomattox Court House
What is popular sovereignty?
a political concept that allowed the residents of the territories themselves, rather than Congress, to determine whether to permit or prohibit slavery
The 19th-century doctrine or belief that the expansion of the US throughout the North American continent was both justified and inevitable defines what term?
Manifest Destiny
Routes and the journey taken by runaway slaves to northern states or Canada in an effort to gain freedom are better known by THIS term.
Underground Railroad
What did the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo do?
formally ended the Mexican-American War; ceded the Mexican Cession (southwestern territories) to the United States
This individual became President as a result of the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes (Republican)
Explain ONE advantage that the South had over the North during the Civil War.
The South had a strong military tradition and a number of trained officers for its armies; the Confederates would be fighting on their own territory
What did grandfather clauses do?
A loophole exempted any citizen whose grandfather had been eligible to vote in 1867 from other voting requirements; protected poor whites' voting ability
What aspect of Manifest Destiny made it controversial to many Americans?
The issue of the spread of slavery to territories added to the U.S.
What was the purpose of poll taxes?
Due to the disproportionate levels of poverty among African Americans in the Southern states, many Blacks – as well as poor Whites – were excluded from voting.
Pictured here, slave marriages were often known by this term.
jumping the broom
This president was impeached by Congress during Reconstruction because he did not support sending the military back into the South to protect and defend freed B
Andrew Johnson
Some historians argue that extremism/radicalism in the 1850s were a large factor leading to the Civil War. Identify ONE example of this.
Raid on Harpers Ferry; Caning of Sumner; Bleeding Kansas; Publishing of Uncle Tom's Cabin
What Constitutional amendment forbid the use of slavery?
13th Amendment
Military Reconstruction, as seen in this image, took place during this individual's presidency.
Ulysses S. Grant
What did the 15th Amendment do?
granted African American men the right to vote; states cannot deny a citizen the right to vote because of race/color/previous servitude
Identify ONE outcome of the Presidential Election of 1860
Abraham Lincoln becomes President; southern states begin to secede from the Union
Explain the circumstances led to the event known as 'Bleeding Kansas'
Pro-slavery settlers and anti-slavery settlers attempted to intimidate and outnumber each other for purposes of determining the status of slavery in Kansas
By what means did the United States settle the Oregon Territory dispute with Great Britain?
a treaty (Treaty of Oregon)
What battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What individual is depicted in the center of the image?
John Brown
This battle located on the map was a crucial success for the Union army under General Grant; ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union advance into Mississippi
Battle of Shiloh
What war did the U.S. participate in that resulted in gaining the territory of California?
Mexican-American War
In what year was the California Gold Rush?
1849
Explain the significance of the Battle of Antietam.
Union victory provided President Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to announce the Emancipation Proclamation; bloodiest single day battle in US History
Identify ONE negative consequence of sharecropping.
trapping freedmen in poverty and debt for generations; kept them on plantations
Identify the historical event depicted in the image.
The 'Caning of Sumner'
The individual pictured here was the president of the Confederate States of America.
Jefferson Davis
Freedmen were not allowed to vote, hold office, sit on juries, serve in local militia, carry guns on plantations, homestead, or attend public schools are all examples of THIS concept during Reconstruction.
Black Codes
What is the name given to the region marked in yellow?
The Gadsden Purchase
Who was the individual who heavily promoted the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Senator Stephen Douglas (Illinois)
Driven to find work, most freedmen took part in this economic activity during Reconstruction.
sharecropping
What was ONE outcome of the Missouri Compromise (1820)?
Missouri entered union as a slave state; Maine entered into the union as a free state; the 36˚-30' line would establish the future of slavery in the territories
Who was the victorious general at the Battle of Chancellorsville?
Confederate General Robert E. Lee
Laborers on the plantations whose primary duty consisted of planting, tending, and harvesting cotton, sugar, rice, and tobacco and whose work days commonly consisted of 15-16 hours per day.
field slaves
Poisoning food and slave rebellions such as Nat Turner's Rebellion are the most well known forms of this.
violent reisistance
Identify ONE demand of the Radical Republicans regarding Reconstruction.
citizenship for freed Blacks; guarantee civil rights/equal treatment under the law; guarantee Black men the right to vote; military sent to South
What was the famous rallying cry by American settlers in Texas in their effort to gain independence from Mexico?
Remember the Alamo!
Identify ONE way that white Southern Democrats were able to undermine the 15th Amendment?
poll taxes; literacy tests; fear/intimidation (by groups such as the KKK)
What is the significance of the firing on Ft. Sumter?
Confederate forces attacked a union fort in South Carolina; Lincoln responded by asking for volunteer federal army to put down the Confederate rebellion
Pictured here, it is an example of THIS concept.
literacy tests
What was the Pottawatomie Massacre?
Murder of 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas by John Brown and his sons as revenge for a previous attack on an anti-slavery settlement
Who was author of the book pictured here?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Identify ONE outcome of the Dred Scott ruling by the Supreme Court.
blacks had no Constitutional rights; Congress had no power to limit where slavery could exist; The Missouri Compromise was declared unconstitutional
Which civil war battle resulted in a Confederate victory and forced both the North and South to face the sobering reality that the war was going to be long and bloody?
Battle of Bull Run
WHAT is the nickname of the Democrat Party coalition in the Southern United States during the Reconstruction Era that sought to regain their political power and enforce white supremacy?
The Redeemers
How did Texas become part of the United States?
It was annexed by Congress in 1844; it entered the union as a slave state
Identify ONE hot button issue of debate that resulted from the California Gold Rush.
California's entry into the Union; route of the transcontinental railroad
The action of withdrawing formally from membership of a political state is defined by what term?
secession
Identify the image.
The Alamo
What sparked the Mexican-American War?
A border dispute regarding the southern boundary of Texas
Because of the success of the underground railroad, what did Southerners demand?
A stronger fugitive slave law be passed by Congress requiring the return of runaway slaves by northerners
Which president's Reconstruction plan was the MOST lenient as it called for only 10% of a Southern state's male population to declare their loyalty to the Union?
Abraham Lincoln's Plan
Explain the significance of this image to the Civil War.
The long-range accuracy of the Minié ball made traditional infantry assaults outdated; large number of amputations/casualties as the bullet shattered bones
It is an example of THIS concept pictured here.
Jim Crow / segregation
Identify ONE goal/action of the Reconstruction era Ku Klux Klan.
undermine the Republican Party; maintain black economic instability; ensure white racial and economic superiority in South; prevent Blacks from voting
The Emancipation Proclamation applied to what region? (Answer by color)
Red (Confederate States)
Examples of this include fake illnesses, deliberately working slow, and breaking work tools.
passive resistance
What was the intent of the Raid on Harpers Ferry?
steal weapons and ammunition from the federal arsenal and distribute them to nearby slaves to spark a large slave rebellion
This concept is pictured here.
Triangular Trade
What was the outcome of the Texas War for Independence?
Texas received its independence from Mexico
Identify ONE provision of the Compromise of 1877.
Rutherford B. Hayes (Repub.) was declared the presidential winner; remaining military would be taken out of Southern states; military reconstruction ends
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