Leading up to the Civil war
The root cause of the Civil War
What is slavery?
The bloodiest single day battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
A system used on southern farms after the Civil War in which farmers worked land owned by someone else in return for a small portion of the crops.
What is Sharecropping?
The leader of the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Issued by Lincoln after the battle of Antietam; declared that all slaves in the the states of rebellion were "henceforth and forever free"
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
(1) California admitted as free state, (2) territorial status and popular sovereignty of Utah and New Mexico, (3) resolution of Texas-New Mexico boundaries, (4) slave trade abolished in DC, and (6) new fugitive slave law; advocated by Henry Clay and Stephen A. Douglas
What is the Compromise of 1850?
1863, Union gains control of Mississippi, confederacy split in two. Following this victory, General Grant takes lead of Union armies, total war begins
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
former CSA states could return to the union after only 10% of their voting population had signed/sworn allegiance to the U.S. State had to agree to abolish slavery in their new state constitution as well. (Plan seen as forgiving and quick)
What is Lincoln's 10% Plan?
The 16th President of the United States, elected in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Union war plan created by General Winfield Scott, called for blockade of southern coast, capture of Richmond, capture Mississippi R, and to take an army through heart of south
What is the Anaconda Plan?
a law that allowed voters in Kansas and Nebraska to choose whether to allow slavery
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
A large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. Union General George G. Meade led his men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate forces. Gettysburg is the war's most famous battle because of its large size, high cost in lives, location in a northern state, and for President Abraham Lincoln's famous speech.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
1865 - Agency set up to aid former slaves in adjusting themselves to freedom. It furnished food and clothing to those in need, helped them with labor contracts, and was most well known for the schools they set up & ran during reconstruction for former slaves.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
One of the major Union Commanders during the Civil War, would eventually become the 18th president of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
larger population, more factories, more railroad mileage, more resources...
What are advantages of the Union?
A Missouri slave sued for his freedom, claiming that his four year stay in the northern portion of the Louisiana Territory made free land by the Missouri Compromise had made him a free man. The U.S, Supreme Court decided he couldn't sue in federal court because he was property, not a citizen.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
Union march from Atlanta to Savannah led by General Sherman using a total war policy - destroying both civilian and military structures and supplies in their path.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
Southern state laws designed to restrict the rights of the newly freed slaves
What are Black Codes?
African American individual who helped many slaves escape through the Underground Railroad
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This officially abolished slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment?
A law that made it a crime to help runaway slaves; allowed for the arrest of escaped slaves in areas where slavery was illegal and required their return to slaveholders
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
The First Battle of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This event and eventual backroom deal led to the end of Reconstruction, with the final removal of Federal troops from the remainder of Southern states.
Abolitionist who was hanged after leading an unsuccessful raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia (1800-1858)
Who was John Brown?
These amendments ruled that African Americans are citizens and that male African Americans have the right to vote