Civil War People
President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the Union.
What is to secede?
The first state to secede
What is South Carolina?
Someone who wants to end slavery.
What is an abolitionist?
An agricultural system in the South where laborers worked land owned by another in exchange for a share of the crop, typically half.
What is sharecropping?
President of the Union
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The first shots of the Civil War fired here
What is Fort Sumter?
True or False
The Emancipation Proclamation abolished slavery in the United States
What is False
It only abolished slavery in the Confederate states. (Slavery was not abolished till after the war in 1865 via the 13th amendment.)
What is the 13th Amendment?
Examples include poll tax, literacy test, and segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
Commander of the Confederate army
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This document declared slaves in rebelling states were free from now on.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Lincoln's famous speech given November 19, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a cemetary.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
The 15th Amendment gave this group the right to vote.
What are African American Males?
One of the first African Americans to hold political office in the South.
Who is Hiram Rhodes Revels?
Commander of the Union army at the time of surrender
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Name 3 Confederate states
What are South Carolina, Mississippi, Florida, Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Texas, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina?
Years of the war
What are 1861-1865?
Defines "citizenship" and grants everyone equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Two ways the Freedmen's Bureau helped former slaves during Reconstruction.
Provided food and jobs; helped protect freed peoples' rights; offered social services; improved lives of freed people
This martyr tried to start a slave rebellion but was captured and shot.
Who is John Brown?
Name four causes of the Civil War.
What are slavery, states' rights, sectionalism, and tariffs (nullification)?
When violence broke out in Kansas over the issue of slavery - what nickname was Kansas given?
What is Bleeding Kansas?
Gave African Americans the freedom to move out of the South.
What is the 13th Amendment?
What did Northern Radical Republicans do to get back at the South for passing the Black Codes?
Created laws and amendments forcing the South to change
Send in Union troops to enforce the changes
Prohibit former Confederate soldiers from running for office or voting
Getting African Americans elected to office
Giving away new Western land to everyone but former Confederate states