Causes
What agreement permitted slavery but outlawed the slave trade, added California to the Union as a free state, established Utah and New Mexico as popular sovereignty, and defined the boundaries for Texas?
Compromise of 1850
What document gave the slaves their freedom?
The Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the president of the U.S. during the Civil War? At the beginning of the war he was supportive of slavery but later he fought for the end of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
What was the period after the Civil War in which African Americans became a part of society?
Reconstruction period
whites
What act required citizens to assist in apprehending runaway slaves and denied enslaved people a right to trial by jury?
Fugitive Slave Act of 1850
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War and helped the Union side start winning?
Battle of Saratoga
Who was the general for the Union during the Civil War? He helped the Union win the war, but when he became president, he was one of the worst Presidents of all time.
Ulysses S. Grant
What racial group of people were given new opportunities in the government?
African-Americans
Which side won the war leading to the losing side being forced to adopt their beliefs on slavery and other important topics?
North/Union
What Supreme Court decision in 1857 said that slaves and their descendants were not “we the people” therefore had no standing in court, had no rights , and if an enslaved person in moves to a free state they are still enslaved?
Dred Scott Decision
What battle stopped the Confederate momentum in the east and stopped the chance of Europe intervening?
The Battle of Gettysburg
Who was the general for the Confederacy during the Civil War?
Robert E. Lee
What were the name of the laws created to isolate African-Americans even after slavery was abolished?
Jim Crow laws
Which side lost the war and had many of their farms and plantations destroyed, cities burned to the ground, their financial system ruined, and their money was worthless?
South/Confederacy
What event was named after the chaos and violence occurring such as when John Brown murdered 5 people, and resulted in popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska.
Bleeding Kansas
Where did the Civil War start when the south fired on April 12, 1861?
Fort Sumter
Who became president after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated? After the Civil War, he pardoned Confederates and restored voting rights.
Andrew Johnson
What was the other group of people that fought for the right to vote during Reconstruction ?
Women
What amendments were added to the constitution due to this Civil War? The first freed blacks, the second one made all males born in the U.S. a citizen, and the last one gave voting rights to all citizens.
13th, 14th and 15th
Which side initiated the war by firing on Fort Sumter in South Carolina on April 12, 1861?
Confederates
What act offered 160 acres of free public land to settlers in the West near the start of the war?
Homestead Act
Who was the Confederate President during the Civil War?
Jefferson Davis
What was the most common position in government given to African-Americans after the Civil War?
House of Representatives
The Civil War was known as the first modern war. What was the gun first used in the Civil War that was an example of a large advancement in technology of warfare?
Rifle