Causes of the War
The main issue that divided the North and South.
What is slavery?
The first major battle of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
The president of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The period after the Civil War focused on rebuilding the South.
What is Reconstruction?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The belief that states should have more power than the federal government.
What are states’ rights?
This battle is considered the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This group worked to help formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This event involved violent conflict over slavery in Kansas.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
This Union victory gave control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Union general who accepted Lee’s surrender.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Laws in the South that restricted the rights of freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This compromise allowed popular sovereignty in new territories.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was Sherman’s destructive campaign through Georgia.
What is the March to the Sea?
The Confederate general who led the Army of Northern Virginia.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This plan focused on punishing the South after the war.
What is Radical Reconstruction?
These laws were created to separate races after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This election led Southern states to secede.
What is the election of 1860?
This event officially ended the Civil War.
What is the surrender at Appomattox Court House?
This abolitionist encouraged African Americans to fight for the Union.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This system required Southern states to be divided into military districts during Reconstruction.
What is Military Reconstruction?
This term describes taking away someone’s right to vote.
What is disenfranchisement?