Civil War Causes
The primary causes of the Civil War.
What is slavery and states rights?
The union plans of capturing Richmond, controlling the Mississippi River, and blockading Southern ports were nicknamed what?
What is the Anaconda Plan?
After the Battle of Gettysburg, Lincoln delivered this speech that laid out the cause of the war and the reasons to fight
The Gettysburg Address
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were all used to prevent African Americans from exercising their right to ______.
Vote
A 3-day battle that ended in victory for the North and led Lincoln to deliver a eulogy for the lots of injured and fallen soldiers there.
What is Gettysburg?
The first major land battle of the Civil War; observed by civilians from Washington D.C.
1st Bull Run / 1st Manassas
Southern states used these to limit the rights of African Americans during the Reconstruction
What are Jim Crow laws?
The 15th Amendment did what?
Allow African American males to vote.
Southern/Confederate slaves were freed by _________ after the Battle of ________
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam
On the same day the Confederates at Gettysburg retreated was also the fall of this important fortification on the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg
The Tenure of Office Act famously led to this never before seen thing in American Politics
The impeachment of President Johnson
This group fought hard for the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments and overrode Johnson's vetoes in Congress
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This legislation led to popular sovereignty and conflicts between anti-slavery and pro-slavery voters in a new territory
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The leader of the Confederacy during the Civil War was who?
Jefferson Davis
The Confederate General who "stood like a stone wall" at the Battle of Bull Run and who was killed by friendly fire outside Chancellorsville.
Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson
Despite the efforts of Radical Republicans and the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, this court case legalized segregation in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
The immediate aftermath of Lincoln's election in 1860; what the Southern states did.
What is secession?
This is the name of the courthouse where the surrender of Robert Lee's army took place.
Appomattox Courthouse
This 17th president of the United States who took office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This law allowed Southern slavers to go north and take back escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
The main result of the Battle of Vicksburg.
The Union gained full control over the Mississippi River & split the Confederacy into two parts
Approximately how many casualties did the Civil War cause?
~600.000
This practice replaced slavery as the main job for African-Americans in the South; the system by which former slaves were tied to an employer on a farm
Sharecropping
This man was the first African-American to be elected as a United States Senator; Southern Democrats responded negatively to the election of this man after the Civil War
Hiram Revels