Road to the Civil War
I won the election in 1860 which made S.C. secede from the Union
Abraham Lincoln
During this battle, the single bloodiest day of the Civil War too place
Antietam
What were the terms of surrender between Grant and Lee at Appomattox?
Confederate troops would hand over weapons and go home
What did the Emancipation Proclamation state?
This declared that all slaves in seceded states were now free; however, it did not apply to slaves in border states that stayed loyal to the Union
What is the 13th Amendment?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States
________________________ suggested that citizens of each new territory should be allowed to decide for themselves if they wanted to permit slavery or not
Popular sovereignty
This battle is considered the turning point in the Civil War because Robert E. Lee would never attack Union soil again
Gettysburg
What was the name of the famous African American regiment that attacked Ft. Wagner, S.C.?
54th Massachusetts
Southerners who supported shift to congressional and military control in South
Scalawags
What was the outcome of the Compromise of 1877?
Rutherford B. Hayes would become President and Reconstruction would end
What was the final decision in the Dred Scott Supreme Court case?
Slaves were declared as property, not people/citizens
Sherman’s March to the Sea began in this southern city
Atlanta
Why do many United States historians consider the Civil War to be the first "modern" war in American history?
New technology was being used (ex: telegraph, machine gun, ironclads)
Laws that required blacks and whites to use separate public facilities
Jim Crow Laws
What is the 14th Amendment?
Granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the US and declared that no state could deprive any person of life, liberty or property
What did the Kansas-Nebraska repeal? And what conflict did it cause?
Repealed the Missouri Compromise because now the Louisiana Purchase territory would be open to popular sovereignty. It caused “Bleeding Kansas”…anti-slave vs. pro-slavery forces in Kansas
Where was the Appomattox Court House located?
Virginia
This was the name of the U.S. plan at the start of the Civil War
Anaconda Plan
Northerners who came south to take part in the region’s political and economic rebirth
Carpetbaggers
What is the 15th Amendment?
Guaranteed no citizen may be denied the right to vote by the U.S. or any state on the account of race, color or servitude
What act of Congress made California a free state but also passed the Fugitive Slave Law?
Compromise of 1850
This was the first big battle of the Civil War. After this battle, the Union knew the war would last a lot longer than expected
1st Battle of Bull Run/Manassas
Name two advantages the South had over the North
Better military leadership, fighting on homeland, fighting defensive war, motivation
This is the term used to describe politicians after the Civil War who opposed Lincoln's lenient attitudes towards the south, opting to punish the region and those responsible for the war.
Radical Republicans
__________________ created the Tuskegee Institute and saw no problem with segregation. On the other hand __________________ argued African Americans shouldn’t settle and helped establish the NAACP
Booker T. Washington/W.E.B. DuBois