Causes & Context
The main cause of tension between the North and South before the Civil War.
Slavery
He won the election of 1860.
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln issued this proclamation that aimed to free enslaved people in the Confederacy.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This amendment made slavery illegal? (Name the amendment number.)
13th Amendment
After the Civil War, name the period when the country tried to rebuild and protect new rights.
Reconstruction
Name one reason people in the North had different lives than enslaved people before the war.
Example answers: Northern workers were poor, worked in factories, had little power; enslaved people had no money, no power.
He was president of the Confederacy.
Jefferson Davis
This battle is described as the bloodiest battle of the war.
The Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote. (Name the amendment number.)
15th
Name one right or protection the 14th Amendment provides.
Example: Citizenship, equal protection under the law, rights of citizens.
This important event in 1860 helped cause southern states to start leaving the Union.
The presidential election of 1860 (Lincoln’s election)
He was the Confederate General who led the Southern army.
Robert E. Lee
Lincoln gave a short speech after the Gettysburg battle to honor soldiers. Name it.
The Gettysburg Address
This amendment said that anyone born in the United States is a citizen (Name the amendment number.)
14th
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments were important for people who had been enslaved for these reasons.
They ended slavery, granted citizenship, and aimed to give voting rights to Black men.
Besides slavery, another topic that increased tensions between the North and South (hint: new lands).
Western territories / homesteads
This actor became famous for assassinating President Lincoln.
John Wilkes Booth
People fought in the war for a variety of reasons. Name 2.
*various*
Name one major problem during Reconstruction.
Example: Reconstruction policies failed in many ways (did not fully protect rights, enforcement problems, or political violence).
Name one failure of Reconstruction.
Example: Failures included lack of enforcement of rights, violence against Black people, and political compromise that reduced protections.
Describe in one sentence what life for enslaved people was like.
Example: Enslaved people had no money, no power, were owned by enslavers, and lived in poor conditions.
This 1860 candidate was popular in the South and came in second with electoral votes.
Stephen Douglas
Explain why the Emancipation Proclamation only freed enslaved people in parts of the country and not everywhere.
The Emancipation Proclamation applied only to Confederate-held areas as a wartime measure to weaken the Confederacy and did not apply to border states or places under Union control.
Describe how Lincoln’s assassination affected the nation, using one or two sentences.
Example: Lincoln’s assassination shocked the nation and complicated Reconstruction leadership; it led to political instability and affected how Reconstruction was carried out.
In two or three sentences, explain how the goals of Reconstruction matched or did not match what really happened.
Example answer: Reconstruction aimed to rebuild the nation and secure civil rights, but failures such as weak enforcement and resistance meant many goals were not fully achieved.