Beginnings
What was the result of total war?
The South's fighting spirit was broken, and total destruction of the South.
What is the name of the document Lincoln signed that freed slaves in territories fighting the Union?
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Southerners were more skilled at hunting, shooting, and riding. Was this statement true for the Confederacy or the Union?
True for the Confederacy
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
What was the First Battle of Bull Run or Manassas?
Where did General Lee surrender to General Grant?
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
People who helped lead escaped slaves on the Underground Railroad were called ________.
What are conductors?
This book outraged southerners, claiming it was propaganda.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Give an example of how African Americans were involved in the Civil War
Many African Americans fought for the Union, deliberately damaged equipment in the South, worked as cooks, worked on Navy ships, were spies.
What is the name of the time period after the Civil War in which a new South emerged?
What is Reconstruction?
He led a slave revolt in Harper's Ferry in Virginia.
Who is John Brown?
Which state was the first to secede after the election of 1860?
What is South Carolina?
Give an example of how African Americans were involved in politics during Reconstruction.
1) Many AA ran for public office 2) Many AA were elected to Congress and local government positions
Name a new weapon that was used during the Civil War?
What are ironclads, air balloons, repeating rifles, or the gatling gun?
As African Americans began to gain rights after the Civil War, what was one method used to prevent them from voting?
What are poll tax, literacy test, or Jim Crow laws?
Name three Southern advantages to fighting the war.
What are experienced generals, horse riders, knowledge of terrain, and help from locals?
Under the Missouri Compromise, what balanced Missouri's admission to the Union as a slave state?
Maine was admitted as a free state.
How did the Kansas-Nebraska Act affect states above the Missouri Compromise line?
People in the new territories could vote to be a slave or free state (popular sovereignty).
What were 2 effects of the Civil War?
What are reunited the country and ended slavery?
Which Amendment ended slavery and forced labor?
What is the 13th Amendment?