Important Places of the Civil War
This first major land battle that proved that the war was going to be long and costly
What is Battle of Bull Run
He was President of the United States during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation
Who is Abraham Lincoln
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing a line across the Louisiana Territory.
What is the Missouri Compromise
This constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States.
What is the 14th Amendment
This group of congressmen who believed Lincoln was being too easy on the South, and demanded freedmen have the right to vote
What is Radical Republicans
This Union general later became president after leading the North to victory
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
Who invented the cotton gin that created a huge increase in the demand for cotton, resulting in a slavery boom?
Who is Eli Whitley?
Define Reconstruction
What is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War
The first shots of the Civil War were fired where
What is Fort Sumter
This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, exposing the horrors of slavery.
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford
This secret group used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction and African American rights.
What is the Ku Klux Klan
This Confederate general was known as “Stonewall” for his steadfast defense at First Bull Run
Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
This law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people, even in free states, and was also known as the Bloodhound Bill
What is Fugitive Slave Act
Two of the Radical Republicans who sponsored a bill in response to Lincoln's 10% Plan.
Who are Senator Benjamin Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis
General Lee surrendered here which ultimately ended the Civil War
What is the Appomattox Courthouse
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 hoping to spark a slave uprising
Who is John Brown
This system trapped many freedmen in a cycle of debt by farming land they did not own
What is sharecropping
This fictional figure often depicted as a person enforcing racial separation, gave his name to the system that defined the post-Reconstruction South
Who is Jim Crow