Causes of the Civil War
This compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter Fugitive Slave Law.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
He was President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
The Civil War caused this many deaths, making it the deadliest war in U.S. history.
What is over 600,000?
This 1803 land deal doubled the size of the U.S.
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This book by Harriet Beecher Stowe intensified Northern opposition to slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This 1863 speech by Abraham Lincoln redefined the purpose of the war.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This economic system in the South was devastated by the loss of enslaved labor.
What is the plantation economy?
This act gave 160 acres of free land to settlers who lived on and farmed it for 5 years.
What is the Homestead Act?
These laws were passed in the South to restrict the rights of freedmen.
What are Black Codes?
The idea that states could vote on whether to allow slavery is known as this.
What is popular sovereignty?
This battle was the turning point of the war in the North’s favor.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
The power of this level of government increased significantly after the war.
What is the federal (national) government?
This belief held that it was America’s destiny to expand across the continent.
What is Manifest Destiny?
This group formed during Reconstruction to resist civil rights for African Americans.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that slaves were property and not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
Lincoln issued this proclamation to free slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
After the war, many African Americans were forced into this labor system, which closely resembled slavery.
What is sharecropping?
This trail was a key route used by pioneers moving westward.
What is the Oregon Trail?
This agency helped freed slaves with education, food, and jobs after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This political party was formed in the 1850s to stop the expansion of slavery.
What is the Republican Party?
The Civil War ended when this general surrendered at Appomattox Court House.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This set of laws and amendments redefined citizenship and equal protection under the law.
This 1848 treaty ended the Mexican-American War and gave the U.S. much of the Southwest.
What is the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo?
This term refers to the postwar rebuilding of the South from 1865–1877.
What is Reconstruction?