Causes of the Civil War
This event was the immediate cause of the first seven states to secede.
What is the Election of 1860?
The Battle of Fort Sumter began when the __________ attacked.
What was the Confederacy?
He was the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
In his First Inaugural Address, Abraham Lincoln said this was his major goal.
What was reuniting the Union?
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What was the 13th Amendment?
This was the central cause of the Civil War.
What is states' rights to decide whether slavery was legal?
The Battle of Appomattox was important because ___________ surrendered.
Who was Lee and the Confederate Army?
He was the leader of the Union Army.
Who was Ulysses S. Grant?
In his first inaugural address, Jefferson Davis argued that states had this right.
What is the right to secede?
Who was Hiram Rhodes Revels?
What is South Carolina?
This was the Confederacy's EARLY attempt at invading the Union.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
He was the first African American person awarded the Medal of Honor.
Who was William Carney?
This country refused to support the Confederacy after the Emancipation Proclamation was announced.
What was Britain?
This system kept many African Americans and white farmers in debt to landowners.
What was sharecropping?
This was the immediate cause of the Civil War beginning.
What is the attack at Fort Sumter?
This was the reason the Battle of Vicksburg was important.
What is it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River?
This was the main leader of the Confederate Army.
Who was Robert E. Lee?
The Gettysburg Address said that the Civil War had these two main goals.
What were ending slavery and reuniting the Union?
This system of laws took away African Americans' rights.
What was the Black Codes?
This was a heavily-debated idea that began in the Nullification Crisis of the 1830s.
What is states' rights to secede?
The Battle of Gettysburg was located in this state.
What is Pennsylvania?
Who was Philip Bazaar?
This document outlined Lincoln's Plan to readmit the Confederate states without punishing them.
What was Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address?
These were TWO goals of the Freedman's Bureau during Reconstruction.
What were creating fair contracts for African Americans, protected African American men voting, finding African Americans separated during slavery, and building schools for African Americans?