USHC Standard 3

Period used to describe pre-civil war

US journalist who is a prominent abolitionist, and published the Liberator

This battle split the Confederacy in half, giving the Union control of the Mississippi

This agreement allowed California as a free state and created the Fugitive Slave Act

Which statement best explains President Abraham Lincoln’s justification for the Civil War

Work of fiction that portrayed lives of slaves in the South, motivating factor of the Civil War

Special Laws passed by Southern states to control former slaves immediately after the Civil War

These slave states did not secede from the Union, and kept their slaves after Emancipation

Civil Rights pioneer who advocated for anti-lynching legislation

One of the bloodiest battles, a major turning point for the Union against the Confederacy

Taking away the right to vote

Decision that a slave could not sue because he was not a citizen; allows slavery in territories

This military campaign destroyed a wide path of property from Atlanta to Atlantic Ocean

This Compromise brought an end to the Reconstruction Era

Amendment abolishing slavery

Northern politicians who opposed Lincoln's plan, and wanted to punish the Confederate states

Only President of the Confederate States of America

First all African-American Unit in US military history

An Act that mandated the return of runaway slaves, many free slaves were kidnapped

This is the Fort that the 54th Regiment gallantly stormed

The place where General Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union General Grant

A payment to vote to keep certain groups from voting

Pushed for full equality and education rights for AA; created the NAACP

Union General who wins the Siege at Vicksburg, and later defeats General Lee in Virginia

Violence between pro & anti slavery factions to influence if state would become free or slave

A former slave leased land during reconstruction in exchange for crops; often taken advantage

Created the idea of popular sovereignty to determine the legality of slavery in a territory

Union Strategy to complete a naval blockade of the Confederacy to prevent export of Cotton

Reconstruction amendment that overturned Dred Scott and gave former slaves citizenship rights

Believed that vocational education needed to happen before AA could push for Civil Rights

This man lead an attempted slave revolt in Harpers Ferry; increases sectional tensions

Private university in Alabama to help free slaves receive an education, founded by Booker

Amendment allowing the right to vote regardless of race, color, or servitude

A compromise which states 1 free state and 1 slave state to maintain balance in the Senate

This fort was located in Charleston where the first shots of the Civil War were fired

Decision saying that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate but equal"