People/Groups
President during the Civil War who issued the Emancipation Proclamation, established the Freedmen's Bureau, and created the Ten Percent Plan for Reconstruction.
Abraham Lincoln
This event kicked off the Civil War when Northern troops tried to reinforce this fort but were attacked by southern forces.
The attack on Fort Sumter
A person who wants to end slavery
Abolitionist
Order issued by Abraham Lincoln freeing all of the slaves behind confederate lines.
Emancipation Proclamation
Leader of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
This group seceded from the Union following the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 and in protest of the push to end slavery.
Confederacy/South
Known as cause leading to the Civil War, this case involved an African American man who tried to sue for his freedom but was unsuccessful due to the belief that African Americans were not citizens and therefore could not sue. This case allowed for slavery to spread among the country.
Dred Scott v. Sanford court case
A system in which landowners give a few acres of land to their farm workers in exchange for their labor. This system often took advantage of former slaves by keeping them in debt and forcing them to continue slave like labor.
Sharecropping
This amendment abolished slavery.
Thirteenth Amendment
Volunteers who helps African Americans escape slavery in the the South through secret routes.
Underground Railroad
Lincoln's vice president who was impeached because Congress felt he was abusing his power. His Reconstruction Plan was even more lenient than Lincoln's.
Andrew Johnson
The surrender of General Robert E. Lee at the Appomattox Courthouse to General Ulysses S. Grant marked this significant event.
The end of the Civil War
The division between the industrial North and the Agricultural South.
Sectionalism
This amendment granted freedmen and women citizenship rights.
Fourteenth Amendment
This invention was responsible to reinvigorating slavery in America.
The Cotton Gin
This group helped Black communities establish schools and provided them with jobs, clothes, food and other resources.
Freedmen's Bureau
Often seen as a cause leading to the Civil War, this attack led by a White abolitionist John Brown sought to seize an arsenal and arm slaves for a rebellion.
Harpers Ferry Raid
Antebellum Era
This amendment allowed African American men the right to suffrage.
Fifteenth Amendment
This was a major cash crop of the Antebellum Era.
Cotton
This group strongly disagreed with the leniency shown to the south and pushed for harsher punishment from the federal government following the Civil War.
Radical Republicans
This event not only brought about new leadership to our country but also caused outrage among the southern states prompting South Carolina to leave the Union.
The Election of 1860/Abraham Lincoln
Plan for rebuilding the Union following the Civil War
Reconstruction
Based on older slave codes, these laws were meant to regulate and limit the lives of freedmen in America.
Black Codes
The invention of this led to a new method of transportation and faster trade along the Mississippi River.
Steamboat