Civil War Causes
Civil War I
Civil War II
Reconstruction
Reconstruction Amendments
100
All credible historians agree that this is the primary cause of the Civil War.
What is slavery?
100

Who won the Battle of Gettysburg?

What is the Union?

100

What years did the civil war last from?

What is 1861-1865?

100
Literacy tests, poll taxes, and grandfather clauses were all used to prevent African Americans from doing this.
What is voting?
100
This Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
200

This Compromise allowed Maine in as a free state and Missouri in as a slave state. It kept the balance of power between slave states and free states.

What is the Missouri Compromise?

200

The union plans of capturing Richmond, controlling the Mississippi River, and blockading Southern ports were nicknamed what?

What is the Anaconda Plan?

200

The first major battle of the Civil War, observed by civilian picnickers, was the battle of 

Bull Run/ First Manassas 

200

What event kept Lincoln from persuading the people to accept his Ten Percent Plan?

What is the Assassination of President Lincoln 

200

The 15th Amendment did what? 

Allow African American males to vote.

300
This led to the strengthening of the Fugitive Slave Law and the admission of California as a free state.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
300

Confederate held slaves were freed by _________ after the Battle of ________

What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Antietam

300

Battle that took place on Sept. 17, 1862, stopped the Confederate offensive and their attempt to invade the North. Bloodiest day of the Civil War.

What is Antietam?

300

Agency set up to start schools, churches, supply food, and clothing for former slaves.

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

300

This group fought hard for the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments and overrode Johnson's vetoes in Congress

Who were the Radical Republicans?

400
This legislation led to popular sovereignty and conflicts between anti-slavery and pro-slavery voters.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
400

A 3-day battle that ended in victory for the North and led Lincoln to deliver a eulogy for the lots of injured and fallen soldiers there.

What is Gettysburg?

400

Ulysses S. Grant was the 18th President of the United States of America, and the head of which army?

What is The Union army?

400
Lincoln's lenient plan for Reconstruction was also called this.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
400
Despite the efforts of Radical Republicans and the passage of the Reconstruction Amendments, this court case legalized segregation of the races in 1896.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
500

This caused South Carolina secede from the Union

What is Lincoln's election?

500

In this battle, Sherman wanted to take this city because he could control all the railways that ran through it. It was the beginning of his "March to the Sea".

What is the Battle of Atlanta?

500

This is the name of the courthouse where the surrender of Robert Lee's army took place.

Appomattox Courthouse 

500

An agreement to rent farmland in exchange for part of the crops grown on the land.

What is sharecropping?

500
This Amendment nullified the Dred Scott Decision.
What is the 14th Amendment?
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