Causes & Tensions
Loyalty to one region over the whole country.
What is sectionalism?
President whose main goal at the start of the war was to preserve the Union.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The side with the larger population advantage
What is the Union?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Laws that restricted the rights of African Americans after the war.
What are Black Codes?
To leave or break away from a country.
What is to secede?
Abolitionist who led a raid on Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
Union plan to blockade Southern ports, also called “Scott’s Great Snake.”
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Farming system where workers paid landowners with a share of crops.
What is sharecropping?
The idea that voters decide issues like slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
Confederate general who led the Confederate Army?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This document freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Group that used violence to stop African Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This compromise kept balance by admitting Missouri as slave and Maine as free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Union general who later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This campaign aimed to destroy the South’s resources and morale.
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
The name for white Southerners who supported Republican Reconstruction policies after the Civil War.
What are scalawags?
Agreement that ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This Supreme Court case ruled African Americans were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
President of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This speech focused on equality and preserving the nation.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This government agency provided aid, education, and support to freedmen.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
Laws that enforced segregation in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?