Causes of the Civil War
This term describes the movement to end the slave trade and emancipate American slaves during the 1800s.
What was abolition?
The person who moved to Kansas to stage a slave rebellion after the Kansas-Nebraska Act was passed.
Who was John Brown?
The place where you would find the most free African Americans in the United States?
Where is the North?
What was African Americans were free after the Civil War?
The solution to the Election of 1876 and the event that ended Reconstruction.
The Compromise of 1877
The terms of the Missouri Compromise
Maine would join as a free state.
New states above the Missouri Compromise line would be admitted as free states.
The reason John Brown was important.
John Brown's activities demonstrated a larger movement to end slavery. (The Abolition Movement) Even though he attempted to achieve his means through violence, many people supported his efforts.
The area of the United States that had increased immigration, manufacturing, and urban growth in the years leading up to the Civil War.
What was the North?
This was a 3-minute address by Abraham Lincoln on November 19, 1863, at the dedication of a national cemetery on the site of a battle in Pennsylvania.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
The reason the Election of 1876 was so controversial.
Many people felt like some states results shouldn't be counted because of the elections weren't held honestly. The contested votes were all given to Rutherford Hayes, making him the President of the United States.
This was the event that pushed Southern states toward secession, with South Carolina declaring their intent to secede within weeks
What was the Election of 1860?
The name of the President of the Confederacy.
Who was Jefferson Davis?
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Georgia
Florida
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Tennessee
This is the city in Virginia where General Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union General Grant on April 9, 1865, effectively ending the American Civil War.
Where was Appomattox Courthouse?
Explain what is meant by the term "black codes".
Black codes were laws passed designed to take away rights from African Americans after the Civil War.
The name of the candidate that received the most votes in the South during the Election of 1860.
Who was John C. Breckinridge?
The names of the main generals of the Confederacy and the Union.
Who were Robert E. Lee and Ulysses Grant?
Name each of the border states during the Civil War.
Missouri
Kentucky
West Virginia
Maryland
Deleware
The Union strategy to win the Civil War.
What was blockading the Southern ports to cripple the Confederate economy?
Explain the importance of the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments.
13th- Outlawed Slavery
14th- Made former slaves citizens
15th- Gave former slaves the right to vote
The name of the fort that was attacked in the first battle of the Civil War.
The name of two lower ranking generals on the Union and Confederacy sides.
Who were William Sherman and Stonewall Jackson?
The strengths and weaknesses of the Union and Confederacy during the Civil War.
(One strength and one weakness per each)
Then North had more manufacturing and resources. They also had a stronger navy.
The South had better military people.
Abraham Lincoln's EVOLVING thoughts on slavery.
Abraham Lincoln promised that he would not free the slaves in the Southern states when he was campaigning for president. When the Civil War began, he maintained that it was a war to preserve the Union, not to end slavery. In 1862, he issued the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing the slaves in the South. He then shifted his stance to saying the war was being fought to free the slaves.
Name three methods instituted by southern states that were designed to prevent African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests
Poll taxes
The Grandfather clause