Causes of the Civil War
Major Battles & Events
Key
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Reconstruction Era
100

What 1860 event led to the secession of several Southern states?

What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?

100

What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?

What is the Battle of Gettysburg?

100

Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?

Who is Jefferson Davis?

100

What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?

What is the 13th Amendment?

200

What law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people to their owners?

What is the Fugitive Slave Act?

200

Which city fell to Union forces in 1863, giving them control of the Mississippi River?

What is Vicksburg?

200

Which Union general later became the 18th President of the United States?

Who is Ulysses S. Grant?

200

What were laws passed in Southern states to restrict African Americans’ rights after the Civil War?

What are Black Codes?

300

What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens?

What is the Dred Scott decision?

300

What was the name of General Sherman’s destructive march through the South?

What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?

300

Who gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863?

Who is Abraham Lincoln?

300

What group used violence and intimidation to suppress African American voting and rights during Reconstruction?

What is the Ku Klux Klan?

400

What violent conflict in Kansas was a preview of the national divide over slavery?

What is "Bleeding Kansas"?

400

Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to end the Civil War?

What is Appomattox Court House?

400

Who was the African American abolitionist and former slave who advised Lincoln?

Who is Frederick Douglass?

400

What federal agency was created to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom?

What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?

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