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What is term that means to get rid of such as slavery?
abolish
What is the area of the United States that supported slavery?
South
What is one reason the Civil War began?
Issues over:
slavery
states rights
What is a law that repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820 and established the territories of Kansas and Nebraska?
Kansas Nebraska Act
What is the name of the agency that the government set up to help educate and help the freed African Americans?
Freedmen's Bureau
What is another name the North called themselves?
Union
What was the escape route the slaves used to go from the South to the North?
Underground Railroad
Where did the Civil War begin?
Fort Sumter, SC
What is the purpose of the 13th Amendment?
to free all slaves
What is the term the African Americans went by when they lived on land and had to share their cotton, tobacco, and other products?
Sharecropping
What is another name the South went by?
confederacy
What is a series of laws that required the return of escaped slaves to their owners, even if they were in a free state?
Fugitive Slave Law
What battle was the turning point of the war?
Battle of Gettysburg
What is the purpose of the 14th Amendment?
gives citizenship and equal protection under the law to all that were born in the US
Who was the President during Reconstruction that wanted to continue slavery?
Andrew Johnson
What is the word that mean to separate from the USA?
secede
Who was the President that emancipated the slaves?
Abraham Lincoln
Which general (name) surrendered to end the war?
General Robert E Lee
What is the purpose of the 15th Amendment?
granted voting rights to all African American men
What were Northern businessmen that came to the South called for their own Personal Business gain?
Carpetbaggers
What was the era after the Civil War known as?
Reconstruction Era
What is the document written that wanted to free the slaves?
Emancipation Proclamation
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What is the series of acts passed by Congress to resolve the issue of slavery in the United States and prevent the country from splitting; it also admitted California as a free state, and abolished the slave trade in Washington, D.C.
Compromise of 1850
What is the name of the organization that tried to stop the African Americans from exercising their right to be free?
Ku Klux Klan