This continued to grow in the South after the War for Independence, but the North passed laws to abolish, or end, it.
What is slavery?
100
He was the President of the Union
What is Abraham Lincoln?
100
The place where firing took place that began the Civil War
What is Fort Sumter
100
Someone who joined the movement to abolish, or end, slavery. Included people in the North and South, whites and free blacks, men and women.
What is abolitionist?
100
This is the period when the South rejoined the Union.
What is Reconstruction?
200
The tax on imported goods
What is tariffs?
200
He was the president of the Confederacy
What is Jefferson Davis?
200
This is where the first major battle of the Civil War took place.
What is Battle of Manassas (Bull Run)?
200
Part of a country leaves or breaks off from the rest.
What is secession?
200
Freed people wanted to farm for themselves, but didn't have the money. Landowners let poor whites and former slaves become farmers on their fields. This is known as ____.
What is sharecropping?
300
The idea that states, not the federal government, should make the final decisions about matters that affect them.
What is States' Rights?
300
The leader of the Union who defeated Robert E. Lee
What is Ulysses S. Grant?
300
It lasted 6 weeks and the South was winning many battles until the Union took over this town on the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
300
The states that left the Union after feeling the federal government was becoming too powerful and Lincoln would try to end slavery.
What is Confederacy?
300
This is forced separation of the races.
What is segregation?
400
Loyalty to one part of the country. Disagreements over slavery, tariffs, and other economic issues increased in the North and South because of it.
What is sectionalism?
400
He surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at the Appomattox Court House
What is Robert E. Lee
400
During this, General Sherman captured Atlanta (large supplier of goods for the South)
What is the Atlanta Campaign?
400
Another name for the United States
What is Union?
400
This kept African Americans separate from other Americans.
What is Jim Crow Laws?
500
This book was written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, because she was so angered by the Fugitive Slave Law. The book fueled greater animosity between the North and the South.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
500
He captured Savannah during his March to the Sea and gave it President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
What is William T. Sherman?
500
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant.
What is Appomattox Court House?
500
Lincoln changed his mind about wanting to free enslaved people. He put this into effect on January 1, 1863.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
500
This was created by Congress to provide food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites. It sets up hospitals and schools and found jobs for many.