Causes of the Civil War
This 1850s best-selling novel helped galvanize Northern anti-slavery sentiment.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
The first major battle of the Civil War, won by the Confederacy, near Washington, D.C.
Manassas or Bull Run
President of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This wartime document freed enslaved people in areas “in rebellion” as of Jan. 1, 1863.
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln’s lenient plan required only this percent of voters to swear loyalty.
10% Plan
The Kansas-Nebraska Act allowed settlers to decide slavery by this principle.
Popular Sovereignty
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania is often considered the war’s turning point.
Battle of Gettysburg
Union general fired after Antietam for being too cautious.
George McClelland
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This amendment granted equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This 1857 Supreme Court decision declared African Americans could not be citizens.
Dred Scot Case
Grant’s victory at this Mississippi stronghold split the Confederacy along the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
Abolitionist whose 1863 address urged Black men to enlist: “Once let the Black man get upon his person the brass letters U.S.… and no power on Earth can deny that he has earned the right to citizenship.”
Frederick Douglass
This government agency was created in 1865 to assist freed people.
Freedman's Bureau
This group in Congress sought to reshape Southern society through military Reconstruction.
Radical Republicans
Lincoln’s election in this year triggered the first secession wave.
1860
Lee surrendered to Grant in this Virginia town in 1865.
Appomattox Court House
This Union general issued Special Field Order No. 15 (the “40 Acres and a Mule” order).
William T. Sherman
Many freed people entered this exploitative agricultural labor system due to lack of land.
Share-cropping
he Reconstruction Act of 1867 divided the South into these administrative units.
5 Military Districts
This compromise admitted California as a free state and created a harsh Fugitive Slave Law.
Compromise of 1850
This 1864–1865 campaign of destructive warfare helped break Southern morale.
Sherman's March to the Sea
Radical Republican leader who pushed for harsh Reconstruction and full Black civil rights.
Thaddeus Stevens
Laws passed in Southern states after 1865 to restrict African American rights.
Black Codes
This political compromise ended Reconstruction.
Compromise of 1877.