Term: Battle of Gettysburg Definition: Turning point of the War that made it

clear the North would win. 50,000 people died, and

the South lost its chance to invade the North.

People Associated With: Robert E. Lee, Union, and

the Confederacy.

Term: Anaconda Plan Definition: The Union's military strategy which

attempted to blockade southern ports, split the
Confederacy using the Mississippi River, and capture
the confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia.

People Associated With: Abraham Lincoln, and

Winfield Scott.

Term: Fugitive Slave Law Definition: strengthened slave owners' ability to

seize escaped slaves—and free blacks—living in the
North.

Words Associated With: Compromise of 1850, laws,

slavery, Missouri Compromise, and Kansas-Nebraska
Acts.
Term: Compromise of 1850 Definition: Five bills passed to retain the balance of
power between slave and free states following
American acquisition of new territory in the
Mexican-American War.

Words Associated With: Slavery, Underground

Railroad, emigration, California, and slave trade.

Term: Emancipation Proclamation Definition: Document that officially ended slavery.

People Associated With: Abraham Lincoln, the

Republican Party, and William H. Seward.

Term: Popular Sovereignty Definition: Said that the people of each territory
should be able to decide for themselves if slavery
should be allowed in their territory when it became a
state.

Words Associated With: Voting, rights, ballot,

decision, expression, and freedom.
Term: Uncle Tom’s Cabin Definition: Novel written by Harriet Beecher Stowe
that showed the horrors of slavery to Northerners.

Words Associated With: Fugitive Slave Act, slavery,

struggle, and novel.

Term: Freedman’s Bureau Definition: Organization formed to help freed slaves

find homes, jobs, and get an education.

Multiple Choice Question: What organization was

formed to help freed slaves?

A) Underground Railroad
B) Black Codes
C) Radical Republicans
D) Freedman’s Bureau

Term: Sharecropper Definition: Farmer that works someone else’s land

for a small portion of the crops.

Words Associated With: Slave, labor, working, and

slaving.
Term: Black Codes Definition: Numerous laws enacted in the states of
the former Confederacy after the American Civil War
and intended to assure the continuance of white
supremacy.

Words Associated With: Laws, segregation, slavery,

and discrimination.

Term: Underground Railroad Definition: A system set up by certain opponents of

slavery to help fugitive slaves escape to free states
and Canada.

People Associated With: Harriet Tubman, Frederick

Douglas, Thomas Garrett, William Still, Samuel
Burris, Francis Ellen Watkins Harper, Phoebe Myers,
Dr. Bartholomew Fussell, Ann Matthews, and Samuel
Green.

Term: John Wilkes Booth Definition: United States actor and assassin of
President Abraham Lincoln.

Words Associated With: Killer, murder, assassin, and

actor.
Term: Jefferson Davis Definition: The first and only president of the
Confederate States of America.

Words Associated With: President, leader, military,

officer, soldier, and politician.

Term: Radical Republicans Definition: A faction in the U.S. Congress which

advocated emancipation of slaves before and during
the Civil War, and insisted on harsh penalties for the
South following the war.

People Associated With: Benjamin F. Wade, Horace

Greeley, Frederick Douglas, Charles Sumner, and
Thaddeus Stevens.

Term: Harper’s Ferry Definition: Federal arsenal seized by John Brown in

1859 with the intent of arming slaves and Stonewall
Jackson in 1862 just before the Battle of Antietam.

Multiple Choice Question: Who raided Harper’s

Ferry?

A) Stonewall Jackson
B) John Brown
C) John Blue
D) John Wilkes Booth
Term: “Bleeding Kansas” Definition: Term used to describe the violent civil
disturbances in the US territory of Kansas from 1854 to
1858.

Words Associated With: Violence, Bloody Kansas, and

Border War.

Term: Compromise of 1877 Definition: An unwritten agreement made between

the Republicans and Democrats that resolved the
impasse about the result of the presidential elections
of 1876.

People Associated With: Rutherford B. Hayes, Samuel

J. Tilden, David Davis, and Joseph Bradley.

Term: Tenant Farming Definition: A farmer who works land owned by another
and pays rent either in cash or in shares of produce.

Multiple Choice Question: What is the term for a

farmer who works land owned by another and pays
rent in either in cash or in shares of produce?

A) Sharecropping
B) Carpetbaggers
C) Tenant Farming
D) Scalawags
Term: Election of 1860 Definition: Election which served as the immediate
impetus for the outbreak of the American Civil
War.

People Associated With: Abraham Lincoln, John

Bell, John C. Breckenridge, and Stephen Douglas.

Term: Carpetbagger Definition: A person from the northern United

States who went to the South after the American
Civil War to make money.

Multiple Choice Question: A person from the

northern United States who went to the South
after the Civil War to make money is called a…?

A) Scalawag
B) Radical Republican
C) Carpetbagger
D) Black Code

Term: Scalawag Definition: A native white Southerner who

collaborated with the occupying forces during
Reconstruction, often for personal gain.

Multiple Choice Question: A native white

Southerner who collaborated with the occupying
forces during the Reconstruction for their own
good is known as a what?

A) Carpetbagger
B) Scalawag
C) Radical Republican
D) User
Term: 13th Amendment Definition: An amendment to the U.S. Constitution,
ratified in 1865, abolishing slavery.

Multiple Choice Question: What did the 13th

Amendment do?

A) Abolish slavery
B) Grant citizenship to all people born or
naturalized in the United States
C) Grant African American men the right to vote
D) Equal suffrage

Term: 14th Amendment Definition: An amendment which granted citizenship to

“all persons born or naturalized in the United States,”
which included former slaves recently freed.

Multiple Choice Question: What did the 14th

Amendment do?
A) Abolish slavery
B) Grant citizenship to all people born or
naturalized in the United States
C) Grant African American men the right to vote
D) Equal suffrage

Term: 15th Amendment Definition: An amendment which granted African

American men the right to vote.

Multiple Choice Question: What did the 15th

Amendment do?

A) Abolish slavery
B) Grant citizenship to all people born or
naturalized in the United States
C) Grant African American men the right to vote
D) Equal suffrage
Term: Dred Scott v. Sanford (1857) Definition: The U.S. Supreme Court decision in which
the Court ruled that African Americans, whether
enslaved or free, were not citizens of the United
States and therefore did not have the right to sue in
federal court. The Court also ruled that the federal
government could not prohibit slavery in the
territories.
Words Associated With: 14th Amendment, slaves,
slave owner, free, and relocate.