Causes of
the Civil War
the Civil War
Compromise between the North and South that allowed California to enter the union in exchange for the passage of the Fugitive Slave Act.
What is Compromise of 1850?
This Amendment gave all men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The Abolitionist known for conducting the Underground Railroad?
Who is Harriett Tubman?
This speech was given after the Battle of Gettysburg by President Lincoln encouraging the Union to keep fighting.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
Supreme Court ruling that declared African Americans were not citizens of the United States.
What is the Dred Scott Case?
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
What is the 13th amendment?
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This era was a time in which the United States needed to be reunited after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This was published showing the evils of slavery making many believe it should be abolished. South tried to ban it.
Who is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
This Civil War Battle that convinced the remaining Southern States to secced.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumtner?
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Name of the plan the North came up with to win the war. It was designed to blockade the south divide the confederacy.
What is Anaconda Plan?
This canceled the Missouri Compromise and made the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, allowed the states to vote on whether slavery was legal or not.
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act?
This Amendment granted citizenship to all men and women born or naturalized in the US.
What is a the 14th Amendment?
The General who is famous for his "March to the Sea"
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
Killed 60-70 white men, women, & children over 2 nights in his revolt against plantation owners.
Nat Turner
This was the largest battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Admitted Missouri to the Union as a slave state and Maine as a free state, while banning slavery from the lands north of the 36º 30' parallel.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Two sets of laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen. These Laws were meant to slow down the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
What are the Jim Crow Laws or the Black Codes?
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
The agency established by Congress at the end of the Civil War to help transition formerly enslaved people and poor whites to self-sufficiency in the post-Civil War South
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
This case found that segregation laws did not violate the 14th Amendment as long as the facilities for both races were roughly equal. Separate but equal.
What is Plessy vs Ferguson?