Cause
Was elected in 1860 and caused the southern states to start seceding...
What is Abraham Lincoln?
The amendment that abolished slavery...
What is 13th Amendment?
The turning point of the war in Pennsylvania...
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
An agricultural system that kept people, mostly freed slaves, in a cycle of debt to landowners...
What is Sharecropping?
The crop that helped to expand slavery...
What is cotton?
Maine and Missouri were admitted as new states after the...
What is Missouri Compromise?
The part of the country that was mostly destroyed after the war?
What is the South?
The first battle that happened in Texas... (hint: City on the Gulf of Mexico)
What is Battle of Galveston?
The plan the United States goes with to rebuild the country...
What is Radical Reconstruction?
New bullets that made the war more brutal...
What is Minie Ball?
Tariffs only benefitted... and hurt...
What is 'Northern Manufactures' and 'Southerners'?
The people who benefitted from sharecropping...
What is landowners?
The Union tried blockading a Texas port along a RIVER so they can invade the state
What is the Battle of Sabine Pass?
Towns built by the Freedman's Bureau....
What is Freedman's Towns?
The laws passed by the south after Reconstruction to oppress African Americans...
What is Black Codes?
Part of the Compromise of 1850, required the North to help return run away slaves back to the south... (hint: A new law)
What is Fugitive Slave Act?
The process the country had to go through to rebuild and bring the Southern states back into the Union...
What is Reconstruction?
The last battle of the war...
What is the Battle of Palmito Ranch?
The organization that helped freed slaves...
What is Freedmans Bureau?
Democrats agreed to let Rutherford B. Hayes become president if...
What is 'all union troops leave the south and end reconstruction'?
The decision the Supreme Court come to in the Dredd Scott Decision... (Hint: the status of slaves)
Enslaved people were property, not citizens.
Under Radical Reconstruction, congress required the southern states to write...
What is new state constitutions?
The Civil War ended at a house in the village of...
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
Tenant Farmers were farmers that.... (hint: They had more freedom.)
Rented the farmland and house they lived in. These farmers owned their equipment and animals.
The event where people were coming into Kansas to vote if the state should be a free state or slave state...
What is Bleeding Kansas?