Causes of the Civil War
Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin which increased Northern opposition to slavery by portraying its brutality.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Abraham Lincoln issued this declaration after the Battle of Antietam on January 1, 1863, changing the Union war aim.
Emancipation Proclamation
These constitutional amendments are known collectively as the “Reconstruction or Civil War Amendments.”
13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The Conscience Whigs and Free Soilers merged and this political party formed in the 1850s on an anti-slavery-expansion platform.
Republican
Name of the Union Strategy
Anaconda Plan
This doctrine argued that residents of a territory should decide the question of slavery themselves.
Popular Sovereignty
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, surprising both sides with its high casualties.
Battle of Bull Run
This government agency assisted formerly enslaved people with education, food, and employment contracts.
Freedmen's Bureau
Radical Abolitionist who led the raid on Harper's Ferry
John Brown
This legislative proposal during the Mexican-American War aimed to ban slavery in all newly acquired territory, though it never passed.
Wilmot Proviso
Union general who developed the strategy for the Civil War
Winfield Scott
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared that enslaved people were not citizens and Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
Dred Scott v Sanford or Dred Scott Case
Turning the tide of the war, these 1863 battles halted Confederate expansion into the North and gave the union control of the Mississippi
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
This president’s lenient Reconstruction plan led to conflict with Congress and eventually impeachment.
Andrew Johnson
George McClellan
Legislation passed by Lincoln granted 160 acres of land in Western territories
Homestead Act
Mortally wounded by friendly fire at Chancellorsville, this general’s death dealt a major blow to Confederate strategy.
Stonewall Jackson
This congressional compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
Compromise of 1850
This Union general’s “March to the Sea” sought to break Southern morale through total war.
William Tecumseh Sherman
This group of lawmakers pushed for harsher punishment of the South and more protections for freedpeople.
Radical Republicans
Leading Confederate general who surrendered at the Appotomox Courthouse
Robert E Lee
This act pushed by the Radical Republicans divided the South into 5 military districts to ensure state compliance with the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments
Reconstruction Act of 1867
This Union general earned the nickname “Unconditional Surrender” after victories in the western theater early in the war. Following the battle of Antietam he replaced McClellan and was named Lt. General, the first person to have that title since Washington!
Ulysses S Grant
This 1854 law effectively repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violent conflict in Kansas.
Kansas Nebraska Act
This speech delivered by Lincoln reframed the purpose of the Civil War as preserving a “new birth of freedom.”
Gettysburg Address
Radical republican plan for reconstruction that was punitive to the South, requiring 50% of a former confederate states voters to pledge allegiance to the union
Wade Davis Bill
2 Radical Republicans we talked about in class
Charles Sumner & Thaddeus Stevens
The Proposal to save the Union by amending the Constitution to legalize slavery
Crittenden Compromise
This Civil War battle (Hampton Roads) featured the first clash of ironclad ships in world history. Name the two vessels involved.