causes of civil war
This term means loyalty to one's own region or section rather than to the country as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
Lincoln's election in 1860 was the immediate political event that helped trigger this Southern response.
What is secession?
This president issued the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery.
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These Southern laws restricted the rights and freedoms of African Americans after the Civil War.
black codes
This 1854 law allowed people in Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether their territory would allow slavery.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This April 1861 event began when Confederate forces fired on a U.S. fort in Charleston Harbor.
What is the attack on Fort Sumter?
This Confederate general surrendered his army to Grant at Appomattox in 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This amendment protected voting rights for African American men.
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This organization was established to help formerly enslaved people, including through education and healthcare.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not prohibit slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This Union strategy attempted to strangle the South with a naval blockade and control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Union general received Lee's surrender at Appomattox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This amendment established citizenship and equal protection of the laws.
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A farmer who used a landlord's land and tools in exchange for part of the crop was called this.
sharecropper
This violent conflict occurred when pro-slavery and anti-slavery forces fought over whether Kansas would enter the Union as a free or slave state.
bleeding kansas
This 1863 battle was a major Union victory that gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
This January 1, 1863 document declared enslaved people free in areas in rebellion against the United States.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group of Republicans favored a stronger federal role and tougher Reconstruction policies.
radical republicans
This 1877 agreement resulted in the removal of federal troops from the South.
compromise 1877
This 1859 event involved an attempt to seize a federal arsenal and inspire slave revolts across the South.
What is John Brown's Raid?
This 1864 campaign helped Lincoln win reelection and severely damaged the Confederate war effort.
What is Sherman's capture of Atlanta and March to the Sea?
Which group of citizens dominated the Republican party after the Civil War?
a.Former Southern plantation owners, scalawags, former Union soldiers
b.Southern white Americans, former Union soldiers, businessmen
c.Poor white farmers, freed African Americans, carpetbaggers
d.Freed African Americans, carpetbaggers, northern businessmen
D
This organization was established to help formerly enslaved people, including through education and healthcare.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
These laws required racial segregation in places such as schools, railroads, restaurants, and other public places.
jim crow laws