Causes
What slave sued for his freedom but lost his case in the Supreme Court?
Who was Dred Scott?
What country did the South try to get help from during the Civil War using King Cotton Diplomacy?
Great Britain
Made an attack on a Federal arsenal in Harper's Ferry, Va. to arm slaves to start a rebellion
Who did General Lee surrender to at Appomattox Court House?
General Ulysses S. Grant
What attack marked the beginning of the Civil War?
Battle of Fort Sumter
what did Sherman promise slaves when the army freed them towards the end of the war?
40 acres and a mule
What political party was formed to stop the extension of slavery?
What was the Republican Party?
What battle was considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Gettysburg
Established in order to provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
Forcing people to serve in the military during a time of national crisis
What is the draft?
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Lincoln
What was the name for the Union blockade strategy to win the war?
Anaconda plan
The amendment which made "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" citizens of the country and entitled to equal rights and due process was the
14th
This group of people was empowered throughout the war because they had to take on much more of the labor burden
Who are women?
Widespread violence across the territory over slavery in the 1850s, including the Sack of Lawrence
What was Bleeding Kansas?
The actor that shot President Lincoln
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
The battle that was the bloodiest day in America’s history (at that time) but it led to the passing of the Emancipation Proclamation
Battle of Antietam
were discriminatory laws that were designed to give southern states control over Freedmen's behavior, and particularly, their labor. They placed harsh economic and social restrictions on African Americans
Black codes
Who were Johnson and Grant