Causes of the Civil War
Allowed Missouri to enter the union as a slave state, Maine to enter the union as a free state, prohibited slavery north of latitude 36˚ 30' within the Louisiana Territory (1820)
What is the Missouri Compromise?
A series of hiding places that led to freedom for enslaved people who has escaped.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This event is considered the immediate catalyst for the outbreak of the Civil War.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This Constitutional Amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Became the President of the United States following the assassination of Abraham Lincoln and played a significant role in the early phase of Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
Harriet Beecher Stowe's widely read novel that dramatized the horrors of slavery. It heightened Northern support for abolition and escalated the sectional conflict.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
In its 1857 decision that stunned the nation, the United States Supreme Court upheld slavery in United States territories, denied the legality of black citizenship in America, and declared the Missouri Compromise to be unconstitutional.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
Union military strategy proposed by Union General Winfield Scott early in the American Civil War. The plan called for a naval blockade of the Confederate ports, a thrust down the Mississippi, and the strangulation of the South by Union land and naval forces.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
Increased the federal government’s power and authority. (one example)
What is the income tax, conscription laws and the suspension of suspend habeas corpus?
During the war, the federal government passed laws, including income tax and conscription laws (drafting of citizens for military service) that gave it more control over individual citizens. Lincoln suspended the “Great Writ” of habeas corpus; a fundamental right in the Constitution that protects against unlawful and indefinite imprisonment.
Provided education and assistance to formerly enslaved individuals
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Created the territories of Kansas and Nebraska, opened new lands, repealed the Missouri Compromise of 1820, and allowed settlers in those territories to determine if they would allow slavery within their boundaries.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854?
American abolitionist and writer, he escaped slavery and became a leading African American spokesman and writer. He published his biography, and founded the abolitionist newspaper, the North Star.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
A large battle in the American Civil War, took place in southern Pennsylvania from July 1 to July 3, 1863. The battle is named after the town on the battlefield. Union General George G. Meade led an army of about 90,000 men to victory against General Robert E. Lee's Confederate army of about 75,000.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Widened the economic gap between the north and the south. (One example)
What is destruction of Southern agricultural land the abolition of slavery reduced labor?
During the war, the economy of the northern states boomed. The Southern economy on the other hand, was devastated. The war not only marked the end slavery, but also destroyed much of the South’s agricultural land.
This Constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all persons born or naturalized in the United States
What is the 14th Amendment?
This event in 1845 made Texas an official part of the United States, sparking tension with Mexico.
What is the annexation of Texas?
What is the emancipation proclamation?
Union General who destroyed South during "march to the sea" from Atlanta to Savannah, example of total war.
Who was William Tecumseh Sherman?
Technological improvements made battles bloodier. (One example)
What are the Minie ball, hand grenades, landmines, and Ironclad ships?
The two deadliest improvements of the Civil War were the rifle and the Minie ball. Hand grenades and landmines became more lethal. The Ironclad ship, which could splinter ships by ramming them, withstand cannon fire, and resist burning. The American Red Cross was founded by Clara Barton.
It resulted in the withdrawal of federal troops from the South and the end of Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1876?
In 1831, this enslaved African American led a violent uprising in Virginia, striking fear into the hearts of slaveholders
What is the Nat Turner Rebellion?
An all-black unit led by Union Colonel Robert Gould Shaw during the Civil War.
What was the 54th Massachusetts Regiment?
Famous as the site of the surrender of the Confederate Army under Robert E. Lee to Union commander Ulysses S. Grant
What is Appomattox Court House?
Two challenges the country faced after the war. (One example)
What are the integration of the South back into the Union and the integration of 4 million newly freed Black Americans into national life.
Known for his "40 acres and a mule" policy, which aimed to distribute land to formerly enslaved African Americans after the Civil War.
Who is General William T. Sherman?