Causes of the Civil War
Causes of the Civil War II
Civil War Battles
Reconstruction
Vocabulary
100
The North and the South could not agree with each other about the spread and practice of this.
What is slavery?
100
This book about the harsh, cruel life of a slave sparked outrage and led many people to support the anti-slavery cause.
What is Uncle Tom's Cabin?
100
An attack on this fort off the coast of SC began the fighting
What is Fort Sumter?
100

Identify ways former slaves were kept from voting during Reconstruction even though they were now allowed to vote

Literacy Tests

Grandfather Clause

Poll Taxes

100

A person who is against slavery

What is an abolitionist?

200
This act required people to return escaped slaves to their owners.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This organization helped slaves escape to the North or Canada. It was run by a secret network of abolitionists.
What is the Underground Railroad?
200

Turning point of the Civil War: The last time the South advanced into the North. There was also a famous speech made here.

Gettysburg

200

Goals of Reconstruction

Rights for former slaves

Bring back the South

200
Nickname given to a state where violence and bloodshed broke out after it was decided that citizens would vote on the slavery issue.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
300

The term used for people like Harriet Tubman who helped slaves escape on the Underground Railroad

Conductors

300
This act allowed two midwestern territories to vote on the slavery issue. It led to violence in bloodshed, particularly in one state.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
300
This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
300

The 14th amendment did this

What is rights & citizenship for former slaves

300

Replaced slavery after it was outlawed. Essentially debt slavery

sharecropping

400

This compromise stated that slavery would not be permitted North of the 36 degrees latitude line

What is the Missouri Compromise?

400
This man raided a federal arsenal at Harper's Ferry, Virginia, in an attempt to arm slaves for an uprising. He was stopped by the military and hanged for his actions.
Who is John Brown?
400

The Union strategy to cut the South off from all of its supplies.

What is the Anaconda Plan?

400

This supreme court case said segregation or Jim Crow Laws were legal so long as facilities were "separate but equal"

What is Plessy v. Ferguson

400
This official change to the U.S. Constitution outlawed slavery in any form.
What is the 13th Amendment?
500
This compromise admitted California as a free state, allowed Utah and New Mexico to vote on the slavery issue, banned the sale of slaves in DC, and enacted tougher fugitive slave laws.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
500
In this Supreme Court case, a slave sued for his freedom. He lost the case, with the Supreme Court ruling that slaves are considered personal property.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
500

The general of the North and the general of the South were these two men

North: Grant

South: Lee

500

This man was president at the end of Reconstruction

Who is Rutherford B. Hayes

500
This declaration freed slaves in the South and all territories which were rebelling against the Union.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
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