Causes of the
Civil War
Civil War
The practice of forcing people to work without pay while treating them as property owned by another person.
Slavery
The group of 11 Southern states that seceded from the Union and formed their own government during the Civil War.
Confederacy
President Lincoln visited the battle site and gave a very short, famous speech called the _________________.
Gettysburg Address
The separation of people based on race.
Segregation
a form of farming, in which a landowner allows someone to use the land in return for a share of the crops.
Sharecropping
A person who worked to end slavery and believed enslaved people should be free.
Abolitionist
The United States government and the Northern states that remained together during the Civil War.
The Union
In places like Texas, word of freedom arrived on June 19, 1865- a day we still celebrate today as _________.
Juneteenth
The period after the Civil War when the United States rebuilt the nation and Southern states rejoined the Union.
Reconstruction
After the Civil War, land had been taken from rich ______________________
Confederates or Plantation Owners
To officially withdraw or break away from a larger group. Southern states seceded from the United States after Abraham Lincoln was elected president.
Secede
The way a country or region earns money and produces, buys, and sells goods and services.
The Economy
The government also created the ________________ to help formerly enslaved people build new lives by providing food, jobs, and opening thousands of new schools.
Freedmen’s Bureau
The false belief that white people are superior to people of other races.
White Supremacy
farmers who could afford to pay rent to the rich plantation owners in the South once their land was returned to them.
Tenant farmers
The act passed in 1854 that triggered "Bleeding Kansas."
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Lincoln's order that declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
The Emancipation Proclamation
Twenty years is also known as _____________.
A score
Laws that restricted the rights and freedoms of Black Americans.
Black Codes
President ___________ ended up giving the land back to the rich plantation owners.
Johnson
The 1859 raid on Harpers Ferry to arm enslaved people for a rebellion.
What is John Brown's Raid?
The Union's strategy to surround and weaken the South by blockading ports and controlling the Mississippi River.
The Anaconda Plan
Two hundred seventy (270) is the number of _____________________________.
Words in the Gettysburg Address
Laws that enforced racial segregation and discrimination.
Jim Crow Laws
The amendment to the Constitution that officially ended slavery in 1865.
The 13th Amendment