Causes of Civil War
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This term describes the period following the Civil War when the Southern states were readmitted into the Union and efforts were made to rebuild the South and address the social, economic, and political issues arising from the end of slavery.
What is Reconstruction?
This term refers to the formal withdrawal of a state from the Union, a key precursor to the Civil War.
What is secession?
This popular novel turned American opinion on the issue of slavery
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This turning point battle was the single bloodiest battle fo the Civil War
What is Gettysburg?
This term was used to describe laws enacted by Southern states after the Civil War that aimed to restrict the rights and freedoms of African Americans.
What are the Black Codes?
This term refers to the network of secret routes and safe houses used by enslaved African Americans to escape to free states and Canada during the 19th century.
What is the Underground Railroad?
The popularization of the idea that America should expand from "sea to shining sea"
What is Manifest Destiny?
Famous battle between two ironclads.
What is Battle of Monitor and Merrimack
This organization was meant to protect the rights of newly freed African Americans by establishing a system of labor contracts and providing for the supervision of freedmen's affairs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Southern whites who supported the policies of Reconstruction and the Republican Party during and after the Civil War.
What is a scalawag?
This war resulted in the annexation of Texas
What is the Mexican-American War?
This battle gave Abraham Lincoln the confidence to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam.
This amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States, including former slaves, and guaranteed equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction, often seeking economic or political opportunities.
What is a carpetbagger
This attack on an armory was led by anti-slavery advocate John Brown
What is the Raid on Harper's Ferry?
(Double Jeopardy) This law went against the Missouri Compromise and inflamed tensions between the North and South
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act
Deadly siege through Georgia which resulted in widespread fires and civillian casualties.
What is Sherman's March
This controversial policy allowed former Confederate states to rejoin the Union if a certain percentage of their voters took an oath of loyalty to the Union and accepted the end of slavery.
What is Lincoln's 10 Percent Plan?
This legislation granted 160 acres of public land to settlers willing to farm the land and improve it, contributing to westward expansion during and after the Civil War.
What is the Homestead Act?
This law delayed the Civil War and had the Fugitive Slave Law embedded.
What is the Compromise of 1850