Unit 5: The American Civil War and Reconstruction, 1860-1877
What was the central cause of the American Civil War?
Slavery
This was the most important agricultural product during the civil war
Cotton
He was appointed President after President Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
Andrew Johnson
A law that made northern states return any slaves that escaped from the South.
Fugitive Slave Act
This was an agency of early Reconstruction which assisted freedmen in the South.
The Freedmen’s Bureau?
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Person deliberately working to free slaves is known as a ________________
Abolishionist
The Abolishionist known for conducting the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
This was a racist white supremacist group that used fear tactics to scare, harm, and even kill Southern blacks and white sympathizers or politicians from roughly 1865-1872
KKK
This was the President of the United States from 1869-1877 and former U.S. General during the American Civil War. He supported the protection of freed blacks following the Civil War but differed on his views from some Radical Republicans.
Ulysses S. Grant
This amendment abolished Slavery in the US.
13th amendment
A person who farmed someone else's land and gets a percentage of the money they made.
Sharecropper
This speech was given after the Battle of Gettysburg by President Lincoln encouraging the Union to keep fighting.
The Gettysburg Address
Lincoln suspended this court order after Union forces seized potentially-rebellious border state citizens and political officials?
Habeas corpus
Who was the president of the south?
Jefferson Davis
This document that Lincoln wrote changed the Civil War from States Rights to Human Rights.
Emancipation Proclamation
The plan for reconstuction if Abraham Lincoln would have lived to see it through?
The 10% Plan
What was one of the failures of the reconstruction era?
African Americans rights were not protected
This place is where General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant, and ended the Civil War.
Appomattox Courthouse
Did Andrew Johnson's plan for Reconstruction benefit the south or the north?
The South
Two sets of laws created by Southern legislatures during Reconstruction that took away the civil rights of freedmen. These Laws were meant to slow down the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments.
Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes