Fact Sheet #4: Slavery, Civil War and Reconstruction

You are expected to know (not just temporarily) the significance of each of these people, places, dates or concepts.  You may find them from any source that you wish, but you must find all of them and learn them!

Abolition

                 William Lloyd Garrison

                 John Brown

                               In Kansas

                               Harper’s Ferry

Slave Rebellions

                 Denmark Vessey

                 Nat Turner

                 The Amistad Case

                 Frederick Douglass

                 Harriet Tubman

                 Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Sectionalism

                 Missouri Compromise

                 Compromise of 1850

                 Kansas-Nebraska Act

                 Popular Sovereignty

                 Lecompton constitution

                 Bleeding Kansas

                 Sumner-Brooks affair

                 Dred Scott v. Sandford

                 Lincoln-Douglas Debates

                 Election of 1860

Agriculture vs. Industry

                 King Cotton

                 Cotton Gin

                               Eli Whitney

The Confederacy

                 Secession

                 Jefferson Davis

                 Robert E. Lee

                 Stonewall Jackson

The Union

                 U.S. Grant

                 George McClellan

                 Admiral Farragut

                 William Tecumseh Sherman

The War

                 Fort Sumter

                 Vicksburg

                 Shiloh

                 Gettysburg

                               Pickett’s Charge

                 Chancellorsville

                 Antietam

                 The Monitor and the Merrimack

                 Bull Run (Manassas) - both battles

                 Sherman’s March to the Sea

                 Appomattox Courthouse        

Abraham Lincoln

                 Emancipation Proclamation

                 Gettysburg Address

                 10% Plan

Reconstruction

                 Homestead Act

                 13th Amendment

                 Freedman’s Bureau

                 Black Codes

                 14th Amendment

                 Ku Klux Klan

                 40 Acres and a Mule