Pre-Civil War Terms
Civil War Causes
Civil War History I
Civil War History II
Reconstruction
100
This means to end slavery.
What is abolition?
100
Fighting between abolitionists and pro-slavery forces in Kansas earned the state this nickname.
What is Bleeding Kansas?
100
This European country considered recognizing the Confederacy as a separate nation.
What is England?
100
Lincoln made this announcement after the battle of Antietam. He announced the freedom of all slaves in the states fighting against the Union. He did not free slaves in the border states though.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
100
This bureau's goal was to provide food, medical care, administer justice, manage abandoned and confiscated property, regulate labor, and establish schools for freed African Americans in the South after the Civil War.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This means to free.
What is emancipation?
200
The raid from this abolitionist helped spark the Civil War.
Who is John Brown?
200
In 1861, he became president of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
200
One of the first African American fighting regiments to fight in the Civil War.
What is the 54th Regiment?
200
Laws passed in the South after Reconstruction enforcing the segregation of African Americans and Whites.
What are Jim Crow laws?
300
This means to make a law void or useless.
What is nullification?
300
This Supreme Court case determined that African Americans were not citizens at the time and had no rights.
What is the Dred Scott case?
300
Before sunrise on April 12, 1861, Confederate guns opened fire on this fort.
What is Fort Sumter?
300
This is the location where General Lee from the Confederacy surrendered to General Grant of the Union, ending the Civil War on April 9, 1865.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
300
This Amendment granted citizenship, due process of law, and equal protection to individuals who were born in the United States.
What is the Fourteenth Amendment?
400
The right of a state or territory to vote whether they want slavery.
What is popular sovereignty?
400
During these debates Lincoln argued: “‘A house divided against itself cannot stand.’ I believe this nation cannot endure half slave and half free.”
What are the Lincoln-Douglas debates?
400
This was the first major battle of the Civil War. It showed both sides that it was not going to be a quick war.
What is the Battle of Bull Run?
400
“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth to this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” came from this Abraham Lincoln speech.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
400
This amendment granted African American males the right to vote.
What is the Fifteenth Amendment?
500
This is a method of moving runaway slaves from the South to the North. Harriet Tubman was one of its conductors.
What is the Underground Railroad?
500
The election of this president caused South Carolina and other Southern states to leave the Union.
Who is President Abraham Lincoln?
500
This battle was the bloodiest battle for a single day in the Civil War on September 17, 1862. The results of the battle was inconclusive but the Union did win a strategic advantage as they were able to stop the South from seizing Washington, D.C. There were 23,000 military deaths.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
500
The costliest battle of the Civil War based on number of casualties. From July 1-3, 1863, the Battle resulted in approximately 51,112 deaths, wounded, missing, or captured. Despite the fact that the South continued to fight for two more years, it was an important victory for the Union. The Confederacy's retreat from Pennsylvania and the terrible casualties were a turning point in the war. From that point on, the South had to abandon its attempt to invade the North.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
500
This Supreme Court Case reinforced the concept of "separate but equal" facilities in the South.
What is Plessy vs. Ferguson?
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