States
In what state is President Lincoln’s body laid to rest?
Illinois
A series of violent confrontations between antislavery and proslavery supporters in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
A temporary government agency that helped newly freed people?
Freedmen's Bureau
What was the 3-day, deadliest battle in the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
Passed in 1820, it admitted the states of Maine & Missouri into the Union?
Missouri Compromise
To put an end to something, is to do this to it?
abolish
In what state was the transcontinental railroad completed?
Utah
What was invented by Eli Whitney that increased the demand for slave labor?
Cotton Gin
Period of time after the Civil War from 1865-1877 when efforts were made to rebuild the South?
Reconstruction Era
In what state was the Confederate attack on Fort Sumter which began the Civil War?
South Carolina
This organized the Unorganized Territory into the Kansas & Nebraska Territories?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Someone who opposed slavery and actively fought to eliminate it?
abolitionist
What was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What did President Lincoln issue to free slaves?
Emancipation Proclamation
Laws that discriminated against African-Americans throughout the South after the Civil War were nicknamed these?
Black Codes
In what state did General Lee surrender to General Grant ending the Civil War?
Virginia
The capital of the Confederacy was located in what Virginia city?
Richmond
What faction of Congress fought to abolish slavery prior to the Civil War, and led efforts after the Civil War to grant freed people equal rights, freedoms, and protections?
Radical Republicans
In what state was the Battle of Gettysburg fought?
Pennsylvania
A network of routes used by runaway slaves to escape slavery in the South?
Underground Railroad
What amendment to the Constitution abolished slavery?
13th
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated?
Andrew Johnson
The Pacific Railroad Act allowed for the construction of what?
Transcontinental Railroad
Born into slavery, he escaped life as a slave and became an influential abolitionist. Who is he?
Frederick Douglass
Name one of the five "border states."
Delaware, Missouri, West Virginia, Kentucky, or Maryland
The South was more dependent on slave labor because of its reliance on what industry?
agriculture
Collectively, the 13th, 14th, & 15th Amendments to the U.S. Constitution are known as these Amendments?
Reconstruction Amendments
To leave the Union, is to do this from it?
secede
In Southern states where these laws existed, African-American convicts could be forced to work for free?
Convict Lease Laws
Uncle Tom’s Cabin was written by what famous abolitionist?
Harriet Beecher Stowe