Sectionalism
This term describes strong loyalty to one's region rather than to the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Southern states leaving the Union was called this.
What is secession?
The war between the North and South lasted from 1861 to this year.
What is 1865?
Reconstruction was the period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South and helping these newly freed people.
Who were formerly enslaved people?
Commander of the Union Army who later became president
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
The North's economy relied heavily on these places where goods were manufactured.
What are factories?
The first state to secede after Lincoln's election.
What is South Carolina?
The Confederate attack on this fort started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
These constitutional amendments ended slavery, granted citizenship, and protected voting rights.
What are the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments?
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
The South's economy depended mainly on this type of agriculture.
What are plantations (or cash-crop farming)?
This compromise attempted to keep a balance between free and slave states in 1820.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This document issued by Lincoln declared enslaved people in Confederate states free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This organization helped formerly enslaved people find jobs, education, and support.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This formerly enslaved abolitionist became a powerful speaker and writer.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This issue created the greatest disagreement between the North and South.
What is slavery?
This 1854 law allowed settlers to vote on whether slavery would be allowed in their territory.
What is the Kansas–Nebraska Act?
This battle is often considered the turning point of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Southern laws that restricted the rights of African Americans were known by this name.
What are Black Codes?
Commander of the Confederate Army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
New states joining the Union often caused arguments over whether this practice would be allowed.
What is slavery in the territories?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens.
What is the Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
The Union's strategy to weaken the South included blockading ports and controlling this major river.
What is the Mississippi River?
Reconstruction officially ended after this compromise in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859.
Who is John Brown?