Civil War Causes
What was the main issue that divided the North and South?
Slavery
Who was President of the United States during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What event started the Civil War in 1861?
Attack on Fort Sumter
What was the time period after the Civil War called?
Reconstruction
What was segregation?
Separation of whites and blacks
What term describes a state leaving the Union?
Secession/Secede
Who led the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysberg
What amendment abolished slavery?
13th
Who was the first African-American to go to an all white school in America?
Ruby Bridges
What was the name of the Southern states’ new country?
The Confederacy
Who gave the “I Have a Dream” speech?
Martin Luther King JR
What speech did Lincoln give to honor fallen soldiers?
Gettysberg Address
What were laws that restricted African Americans after the war?
Black Codes/Jim Crow Laws
What Supreme Court case declared that “separate but equal” schools were unconstitutional?
Brown vs Board of Education
What compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as free?
The Missouri Compromise
Who was the first African American to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court?
Thurgood Marshall
What document freed enslaved people in Confederate states?
Emancipation Proclamation
What agency helped freed slaves with food, jobs, and education?
Freedman's Bureau
What form of protest did African Americans use when they walked instead of taking the bus?
Montgomery Bus Boycott
What book by Harriet Beecher Stowe angered many in the South?
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Who refused to give up her bus seat in Montgomery, Alabama?
Rosa Parks
What year did the Civil War end?
1865
What amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th
Which 1963 event was organized by Martin Luther King Jr. and other leaders to demand jobs and freedom, where King delivered his famous "I Have a Dream" speech?
March on Washington