Causes
This conflict between two states was the first incitement of violence before the civil war.
What was Bloody Kansas?
This Civil War battle was one of the bloodiest during the war and resulted in a famous speech.
What was the the Battle of Gettysburg.
The Civil War resulted in the enactment of this proclamation which released all enslaved African Americans from bondage.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This court case decided that enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights.
What was Dred Scott V. Sandford
HIPP: Purpose is to indicate one of the causes of the Civil War.
Robert E. Lee surrendered on this date which caused the end of the Civil War.
What is April 9th?
This federal government act prohibited slaves from being held above the 36th Parallel and allowed for the admittance of 2 states.
What was the Missouri Compromise?
This Civil War battle caused the surrender of Robert E. Lee at this site which was the first to result in the cascade of the fall of the confederacy and the Union victory.
What is Appomattox?
The Civil war temporarily tipped the sectional balance in favor of this side.
What is the North?
This amendment banned all slavery from ever existing within the union.
What is the thirteenth amendment.
This percentage of the United States population was killed during and due to the fighting of the civil war
What is 2%.
These two published works denouncing the Alien and sedition acts sparked the debate regarding states' rights to nullify federal laws.
What were the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions?
This battle, the first major land battle of the Civil War fought in 1861, was the first major land battle fought.
What was the battle of Bull Run?
Lincoln's original percentage of the population that had to swear loyalty was changed from this to the number instituted by Andrew Johnson.
What is 10%.
This amendment guaranteed all African Americans equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This was the original name of Memorial Day.
What is Decoration Day?
This event was overseen by Andrew Jackson resulted in the court case of Gibbons vs. Ogden
What was the Nullification Crisis
This battle gave Abraham Lincoln the opportunity to release the Emancipation Proclamation.
What was the battle of Antietam?
This amendment guaranteed African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This was the average age of an American soldier during the civil war.
What is 23 years old.
This massacre done by John Brown further increased Southern anger at the Northern Abolitionist movement.
What was the Pottawatomie massacre?
This general led the March to the Sea during which they burned a path from deep within the land to the ocean.
Who was General Sherman
The Unification of the United States started the process of the United States becoming this.
What is a world superpower?
Written by this author, this book detailing the life of a slave helped give rise to the abolitionist movement.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
HIPP: point of view is that Slavery should be abolished.
These three future presidents all served in the civil war.
Who are Grant, Mckinley, and Hayes.