The Road to War
This term refers to loyalty to one’s region rather than the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism
The first shots of the Civil War were fired here in 1861.
What is Fort Sumter?
The president’s 1863 order freeing enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This president wanted to reunite the South quickly after the war.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 1854 law that allowed states to vote on slavery and led to “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The most famous African American regiment during the Civil War
What is the 54th Massachusetts
This invention allowed the quick transportation of goods and soldiers
What is the Railroad/train
Congress’s plan for Reconstruction was known by this name.
What is congressional reconstruction/radical Republican plan
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This was the bloodiest single day battle of the war.
What is Antietam?
The draft caused riots in this Northern city in 1863.
What is New York City
The organization created to help freedmen with food, schools, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
The compromise that admitted Missouri as a slave state, Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
The Union military strategy aimed at squeezing the south into submission
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This invention allowed for messages to be sent back and forth almost instantaneously
What is the telegraph?
These Southern laws restricted the rights of newly freed African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
The term for separating people based on race.
What is segregation?
The 1860 event that caused several Southern states to secede.
What is Abraham Lincoln’s election?
This 1863 battle was the turning point of the war and ended Lee’s invasion of the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The economies of the North and South were based on _____________ and ________________
What is industrial and agricultural
This plan was known for only asking 10% of loyalty from Southern states
What is presidential reconstruction/10% plan
The system where freedmen worked land in exchange for crops, often leading to debt.
What is sharecropping?