The Road to War
The growing social and economic gap between the North and South.
The location where the first shots of the Civil War were fired.
Where is Ft. Sumter
President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The 1863 decree that declared all enslaved people in "rebel states" to be free.
What is The Emancipation Proclamation?
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction to seek profit or political office.
Admitted California as a free state and included the Fugitive Slave Act.
Winfield Scott's strategy to squeeze the South by blockading ports.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
He declined Lincoln's offer to lead the Union to fight for his home state, Virginia.
Who is Gen. Robert E. Lee?
This Amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
What is The Thirteenth Amendment?
This 1877 deal ended military occupation of the South and Reconstruction.
What is The Compromise of 1877?
1857 Supreme Court case ruling that enslaved people were property, not citizens
What is The Dred Scott Supreme Court battle?
The bloodiest single day in American military history (1862).
Union General who finally accepted Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Who is Gen. Ulysses S. Grant?
This Amendment granted "equal protection" and citizenship to all born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
State and local laws that enforced racial segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crowe Laws?
Violence in this territory followed the Kansas-Nebraska Act.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
General Sherman's tactic of destroying civilian resources to break the South's will.
What is Total War?
The Union General Lincoln fired for being too cautious after Antietam.
Who is Gen. George McClellan ?
The legal right to be seen before a court that Lincoln suspended to deal with dissenters in the North.
What is the Writ of Habeas Corpus?
This system kept former slaves in a cycle of debt by working a landowner's land.
He led a raid on Harpers Ferry to start an armed slave revolt.
Who is John Brown?
These metal-covered warships, like the Monitor and Virginia, changed naval history.
What are Ironclads?
Confederate General who earned his nickname at the Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Gen. Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson?
This organization was established to provide food, clothes, and schools for former slaves.
What is The Freedmen's Bureau?
The 1896 Supreme Court case that established the "separate but equal" doctrine.
What is the Plessy v Ferguson Supreme Court decision.