Causes of the War
Abrahman Lincoln, John Breckinridge, John Bell, Stephen Douglas
Who were the candidates in the 1860 election?
To preserve the union
What was Lincoln's main goal during the war?
Provided faster real time communication
What is the telegraph?
This was Lincoln's Plan to rebuild the South.
The amendment which freed the slaves
What is the 13th Amendment?
The workforce for the cotton industry in the south
Who are enslaved people?
Who was Andrew Johnson?
Provided faster transport of supplies, food, and soldiers
What is railroad?
These laws forbade or limited African American Access to many public facilities and denied most blacks the right to vote.
What are Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes?
Plessy vs. Fergusson
What is the "separate but equal" court case?
An attempt in congress to have balance of power between free states and slave states entering the union
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln's proclamation in 1863 to free enslaved people
What is Emancipation Proclamation?
The first battle of the war when locals watched from picnic blankets
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
Amendment which granted citizenship to anyone born in the United States regardless of race or servitude status
What is 14th Amendment?
A landowner takes part of the crop profit from the tenant in exchange for living and working the land
What is sharecropping?
A network of hiding spots for escaped slaves to make their way north to free territory
What is the Underground Railroad?
April 14, 1865
What is the date Lincoln was assassinated?
Single bloodiest day in US military history
What is battle of Antietam?
Amendment which granted all male citizens the right to vote
What is the 15th Amendment?
Government program which provided schools for African Americans to attend school?
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
John Brown kills 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas territory
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Four score and seven years ago
What is the first line of the Gettysburg Address?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
New state constitutions, ratify 14th amendment, congressional approval, pay restitution
What are requirements for former Confederate states to rejoin the union?
1865-1877
What are the dates of Reconstruction?