Causes of Civil War
This was the "final straw' that made South Carolina the first state to secede from the Union.
What is the Election of 1860/Abraham Lincoln.
"Four Score and Seven years ago, our fathers brought upon this continent a new nation...."
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Union or Confederate: Ulysses S. Grant
What is Union?
The Union wanted to overtake this city to disrupt major railway lines that the Confederacy needed. A Union General burned the city to the ground in the process.
What is the Battle of Atlanta?
Under this plan:
1. Southern states were put under military rule
2. Southern states had to hold new constitution conventions
3. Southern states had to ratify the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments
What is the Congressional Reconstruction Plan?
The victory of this war led to an increase to sectionalism as new territories were admitted and the question of whether or not they should allow slavery
What is the Mexican-American War?
TWO examples of Lincolns use of Emergency Powers
What is Habeas Corpus and Emancipation Proclamation
Union or Confederate: Robert E. Lee
Confederate
Turning point of the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
First government relief program that was meant to provide, jobs, education, land, clothes to freed slaves, poor white men, and Indians.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This law required northern states to forcibly return escaped slaves to their owners in the South
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
-end slavery
- reunite the nation
What is the Second Inaugural Address?
Union or Confederate: Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
Confederate
Bloodiest single day battle that influenced Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation
What is the Battle of Antietam?
laws that limited the rights of freed blacks so much that they basically kept them living like slaves
What is Black Codes?
This Act permitted popular sovereignty which increased sectional tension on the issue of slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
While this act freed slaves in the rebelling states, it did not have an immediate impact.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The first and only President of the Confederate States
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This battle cut the Confederacy in half and helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
This election brought an end to Reconstruction.
What is 1876/Hayes
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lincoln suspended this as a way to help preserve the union
What is Habeas Corpus?
His March to the Sea included burning everything in sight (a special necktie was names after him)
This battle helped Lincoln gain support from northerners who at first opposed the war.
What is the Fort Sumter?
13th: Ends Slavery
14th: Grants citizenship to all born in the USA
15th: All 21+ men the right to vote