Causes
Why did South Carolina become the first state to secede from the union?
The President of the Union States
Abraham Lincoln
Which word means to break apart or separate?
SECEDE
TRUE OR FALSE Many slaves escaped across Union lines to secure their freedom, during the war.
Reconstruction was a time when...
the federal government protected the rights of the newly freed slaves
One of the ways that the Confederate Army tried to break disrupt the Union blockade on the city of Charleston was by employing a new weapon known as the Hunley. The Hunley was a....
Submarine
In 1861, THIS MAN was hired to work aboard a Confederate steamship known as the Planter. After much planning, he convinced several members of the crew to help him seize the ship and deliver it to the Union Army.
ROBERT SMALLS
What does it mean if you were an abolitionist?
You wanted to end slavery everywhere!
What 2 jobs did the women have during the civil war?
Nurses and Farm Managers
President Lincoln’s first plan for Reconstruction failed because____________________________.
Confederate leaders were still in power
Which was not a reason why South Carolina seceded from the Union?
State's Rights
Slavery
Abraham Lincoln's Election
Charleston was captured
Charleston was captured
This man MAY have burned the city of Columbia, but also burned many plantations, farms, and destroyed rail roads.
William Sherman
What is a sharecropper?
a tenant farmer especially in the southern U.S. who is provided with credit for seed, tools, living quarters, and food, who works the land, and who receives an agreed share of the value of the crop minus charges
By the end of the war, what happened to most of the elite class in South Carolina?
Lost wealth and property
When Congress passed the 15thamendment___________________________________________.
African Americans were given the right to vote
Confederate soldiers often had trouble getting food, clothing, and ammunition. Which of the following made it extremely difficult for the South to get needed supplies to its soldiers?
The Union Blockade of Charleston
The President of the Confederate States of America was...
Jefferson Davis
Northerners who moved to the South for economic opportunities were called__________________________________.
Carpetbaggers
The Civil War changed many people’s lives. The war made men___________________________.
Go and fight!
Reconstruction helped African Americans because______________________________________.
their rights were protected
they were able to vote
they were able to be elected in the government
Who won the firing on Fort Sumter? The Union or the Confederacy?
The Confederacy
What important thing did Harriet Tubman do?
She was a conductor on the Underground railroad and saved over 300 slaves.
Scalawags were
Any person living in the south who agreed with the union ideas.
Elite plantation owners lost much of their wealth as a result of the war because_______________
they were not able to export their cotton due to the blockade
they lost property when the Union army freed their slaves and burned their buildings
their Confederate bonds and currency became worthless when the South lost the war
Following the end of Reconstruction, federal troops withdrew from the southern states. As a result,_________________________________________.(
white leaders passed laws to limit the rights of African Americans