Causes/Events (Leading)
The South's economy was based off of this agriculture product
What is Cotton?
This man was a major general for the Union
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Deadliest battle of the Civil War
Battle of Gettysburg
Tests that African American males had to take in order to vote. (These tests were created to disenfranchise blacks).
What are literacy tests?
Using ironclad warships and wearing down the union army was this sides strategy
Who is the Confederacy?
This political party was established in the early 1850's to sop the expansion of slavery
Who is the Republican Party?
This man sued for his freedom after his slave owner died while living in a free state
Who is Dred Scott?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (POINTS DOUBLED)
a war not only against enemy troops, but also against anything that supports the enemy (railroad, crops, livestock, homes, etc.)
What is Total War?
This president was impeached during reconstruction.
Who was Andrew Johnson?
This side won the first two years of the war
Who is the Confederacy?
The book that told the narrative of slaves that many southerners did not agree with and felt it portrayed the South in a bad light
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin
Southern sympathizer who broke his ankle after jumping from the balcony at Ford's Theater after he fatally shot Abraham Lincoln
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
The 54th Massachusetts lost most of their men during this battle
What is Battle of Fort Wagner?
The agency that vowed to help newly freed African Americans after the war
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY (POINTS DOUBLED)
The town and state where John Brown and his followers attempted to seize a federal arsenal to start an insurrection with the hopes of ending slavery
What is Harpers Ferry, Virginia?
The south wanted this to keep prices low on goods they bought
What are low Tariffs?
In the move Glory, he was whipped after being accused of deserting the army. Later it was determined that he was trying to find adequate shoes
Who is Private Trip?
This is where Robert E. Lee surrendered and ended the Civil War
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The percentage of Confederates that had to swear to an oath of loyalty to return to the Union (under Lincoln's plan)
What is 10%
The three reconstruction amendments (list and describe)
What is
13th amendment -slavery illegal
14th amendment - citizenship to all persons born in US
15th amendment - African American men can vote
The term that refers to loyalty to one's own region or section of the country rather than to the county as a whole
What is sectionalism?
He was an abolitionist that owned a newspaper called the Liberator
Who is William Lloyd Garrison?
The bloodiest day of the Civil War
What is the battle of Antietam?
These laws were created with the intend to restrict the freedom of African Americans and to limit the types of jobs they could do after the Civil War.
What are Black Codes?
Author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, this man argued with Lincoln during a series of debates which essentially made Abraham Lincoln very famous during the presidential election
Who is Stephen Douglas?