Causes of the civil war
What did the southern states decided to do after the election of 1860?
Secede
Who won the election of 1860?
Abraham Lincoln
What was the bloodiest day?
The battle of Antietam
What are the three reconstruction amendments?
13th , 14th , 15th amendments.
Who assassinated Lincoln and where?
John Wilkes Booth at Fords Theater.
What effects did the Kansas-Nebraska act have?
It caused the "Bleeding Kansas" and more heated arguments over slave/free states.
Who led troops to victory in Tennessee and Mississippi, and, in 1864, became commanding general of Union army?
Ulysses S. Grant
What was the "Bloodiest battle" during the Civil War?
The battle of Gettysburg
July 1st - 3rd, 1863
What did the 13th amendment do?
It banned slavery from the entire nation from free to slave states.
Who killed the national bank?
Andrew Jackson and placed his money in "pet banks".
Which states seceded?
Florida, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas.
Who was the president of the Confederate states?
Jefferson Davis
What is the 1st battle of Bull Run also known as? and who won?
Its also known as the Battle of Manassas, the Confederates won.
What limited African Americans from voting?
Literary tests and you had to pay if you were African American.
Which abolitionist led the "bleeding Kansas"?
John Brown
How did sectionalism play a major role in the development of the Civil War?
The Southerners gathered more slaves since the invention of the cotton gin, now that helped the production of clean cotton. The Northerners used manufacturing/factories, which did not require slaves to do the work because they hire workers and pay them or its the machines doing all the hard work.
Commander of the Confederate army of Northern Virginia?
General Robert E. Lee
Which battle did Grant lay siege in and what date?
Siege and battle of Vicksburg, May-July, 1863
How did Plessy v. Ferguson decision uphold Jim Crow laws?
It allowed the continuance of the Jim crow laws because it was still following the US Constitution since it didn't treat African Americans like slaves again making it unconstitutional.
Which abolitionist wrote "Uncle Tom's Cabin"?
Harriet Beecher Stowe