Civil War
This was the primary goal of Abraham Lincoln at the start of the Civil War.
What was preserving the Union?
Lincoln's speech framing the Civil War as a fight to see if government of the people, for the people and by the people could survive.
What was the Gettysburg Address?
Term for Southern states withdrawing from the Union.
What was secession?
A group of vocal Republicans in Congress who wanted to punish the South after the Civil War.
Who were the Radicals?
Lenient, No Punishment, Pardons, Quick and Easy, Black Codes, Sharecropping.
What was Presidential Reconstruction?
Gave food and clothing to former slaves, helped them find work, set up schools for former slaves and provided medical care.
What was the Freedman's Bureau?
The event that ended the period of Reconstruction.
What was the Compromise of 1877 to resolve the Election of 1876?
Fighting a defensive war on home soil.
What were advantages of the South?
Union general in the east who lost to both Lee and Lincoln.
Who was George McClellan?
John Brown's Raid, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas, Dred Scott Case.
What were events of the 1850s that brought the US closer to war?
George Meade, William T. Sherman, Ulysses S. Grant, Abraham Lincoln.
Who were Union leaders?
Hate group that rose up in the south after the Civil War.
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
Lincoln's executive order stating all men and women in bondage in Confederate states would be set free.
What was the Emancipation Proclamation?
The final battle for control of Mississippi River which split the Confederacy in two.
What was the battle of Vicksburg?
Identify the following: abolished slavery; granted citizenship to former slaves; granted the right to vote for African-American Men.
What were the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments?
"Stonewall" Jackson, Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis.
Who were Confederate leaders?
Southern conservatives reaction to the 13th Amendment.
What were the Black Codes?
Representative from Pennsylvania who led Radical Republicans in Congress.
Who was Thaddeus Stevens?
The man who shot Abraham Lincoln.
Who was John Wilkes Booth?
Choose the Confederate figures: Jefferson Davis; Robert E. Lee; Ulysses Grant; William Sherman; Abraham Lincoln; Stonewall Jackson.
Who were Jefferson Davis; Robert E. Lee; Stonewall Jackson?
More population, more railroads, more manufactured goods, more weapons.
What were advantages of the North?
The man who led followers to attack pro-slavery believers in the Kansas and attempted to lead a slave uprising in Harper's Ferry.
Who was John Brown?
The man who led the unsuccessful final charge at the Battle of Gettysburg.
Who was General George Pickett?
A plan to change the south by punishing former Confederate officials and granting rights to former slaves.
What was Radical Reconstruction?
The southern states lost the war and had to be "reconstructed" under the rule of the stronger federal government, which had the power to decide their future.
How did the Civil War strengthen the Federal Government?