5th Grade Civil War Review

People

100

This person was an abolitionist. He was born a slave, taught himself to read and write, and escaped to the North. He went on to become a public speaker and author, publishing his autobiography.

Frederick Douglass

200

This person was the leader of the Confederate army

Robert E Lee

300

This person was a conductor on the Underground Railroad after escaping from slavery. Worked as a nurse, spy and scout for the Union army during the war.

Harriet Tubman

400

This person was the president of the Confederate States of America

Jefferson Davis

500

This person invented the Cotton Gin in 1793

Eli Whitney

Causes

100

Which part of the country based their economy on factories?

North

200

Which part of the country based their economy on their agriculture?

South

300

The South believed that ending slavery would....

Hurt their agriculture because they would not have people to tend to the crops.

400

Name one cause of the American Civil War

Disagreements about slavery, disagreements about government

500

Name one outcome of the Civil War

Answers may vary

Compromises and Amendments

100

This amendment made slavery illegal throughout the US

The 13th Amendment

200

What did the 15th amendment do?

Gave Black men the right to vote. However, Jim Crow laws in the South kept them from voting. 

300

This Compromise took place in 1820. It made the imaginary line between the North and the South. Anything above the line was not a slave state, anything below the line was a slave state.

Missouri Compromise

400

This Compromise allowed popular sovereignty to new territories. It also admitted California as a free state.

Compromise of 1850

500

This law stated that any slave that escaped to the North hasd to be returned to slavery. Many people in the North chose not to obey this law.

Fugitive Slave Law

Battles

100

What year did the Civil War end?

1865

200

The surrender of the Civil War took place at ....

Appomattox Courthouse

300

Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?

Fort Sumter

400

This battle was considered the turning point of the war

The Battle of Gettysburg

500

This battle was the bloodiest day of the Civil War

The Battle of Antietam

Vocab

100

A person who wants to put an end to slavery

Abolitionist

200

This was a series of escape routes and hiding places to bring slaves out of slavery.

Underground Railroad

300

This organization was developed after the Civil War to help former slaves transition into their new lives

The Freedman's Bureau

400

Define sharecropping

The system developed during Reconstruction where freed slaves and poor white citizens would work on plantations as farmers. They would not get paid, but instead get only a small portion of the crops they grew. This system kept people in poverty. 

500

What is the difference between Jim Crow Laws and Black Codes?

Jim Crow Laws enforced segregation (separation) between white and Black citizens in many public places. Black Codes were harsher laws that made it possible for Black citizens to get arrested for just about anything.