Causes
Why were southerners opposed to the abolition of slavery?
It would ruin their economy
Who issued the Emancipation Proclamation?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The amendment which states that no one can be kept from voting because of "race, color, or previous condition of servitude" is the
15th Amendment
To break away from the Union.
What is secede
In the Civil War who had the advantage of a larger population and stronger economy?
What was the North (Union)
What did the Kansas-Nebraska Act declare?
Territories could use popular sovereignty to decide if they would enter the Union as a slave state
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It was a wartime action to weaken the Confederacy. It freed slaves in the Confederate states. It shifted the war’s focus to ending slavery.
The Amendment that ended slavery
What is the 13th Amendment
Someone who dies for a cause
What is a martyr
In the Compromise of 1877 that ended Reconstruction, Republicans agreed to
Withdraw federal troops from the South
What political party did the north follow?
Republicans
This speech by Lincoln was delivered in the middle of the war at the battlefield that was to become a national cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address
Which amendment defined citizenship and guaranteed "equal protection under the law?"
What is the 14th Amendment
A device that cleans the seeds and stems from the fiber of cotton.
What is a cotton gin.
Name the town where General Lee surrendered to General Grant
What is Appomattox Court House
This event triggered the Secession Crisis that directly caused the war
Election of Lincoln
What form of government did Lincoln refer to in his closing line in the Gettysburg Address? (“government of the people, by the people, for the people”)
Democracy and preserving a representative government
What required you to pass a test to prove you could read and write before being allowed to vote?
literacy tests
An economic system in which laborers rented land in exchange for a portion of what they produced in their crops; kept African Americans in a cycle of debt
What is sharecropping
The Ku Klux Klan was using fear to return which political party to power in the South during Reconstruction?
What is Democrat
What is Bloody Kansas?
Widespread violence across the territory over slavery
What was the main purpose of Lincoln's First Inaugural Address?
To preserve the Union and prevent secession
These laws allowed for segregation in every aspect of Southern society including schools, public transportation, churches etc...
Jim Crow Laws
An agreement in which California became a free state; slave auctions were outlawed in Washington D.C.; new territories won from Mexico would be open to slavery; a new fugitive slave act was created.
What was the Compromise of 1850
The Freedman’s Bureau was established to:
provide former slaves with food, clothing, and education