Causes
What do we call the forced removal of Native American groups from the southeastern United States?
The Trail of Tears
Which side had more advantages (at least, hypothetically)?
The North
What is the main character's full name?
Jethro Creighton
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
Where did the War officially end?
Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia
What is the name of the movement that had a goal to end slavery in the United States?
The Abolition Movement
States that didn't formally secede, but still had ties to the South, including many enslaved people.
Bill
She was a conductor on the Underground Railroad
What three amendments were passed during Reconstruction?
13th (ending slavery), 14th (establishing birthright citizenship), and 15th (granting all men, regardless of race, the right to vote)
The ____________ of 1850 admitted California as a free state and said that new states had popular sovereignty on the issue of slavery.
Compromise
What significant technology developed during the Civil War changed naval history forever?
The invention of ironclad ships
What does an angry mob do to the Creighton family because of Bill's decision to fight for the Confederacy?
They burn down their barn
What were the last names of the three Union generals who were fired from their positions?
McClellan, Burnside, Hooker
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
It was an organization meant to help recently freed people get on their feet and become integrated into American society
What did the Dred Scott Decision ultimately establish in the United States?
That enslaved people would continue to be enslaved even if they moved to a free state.
What was the Anaconda Plan?
What happens to Shadrach Yale, Jethro's teacher?
He is injured in battle
What is General William Tecumseh Sherman famous for?
What were the Black Codes?
Laws meant to keep African Americans from benefitting from rights granted to them by the Reconstruction Amendments.
What event sparked South Carolina's decision to secede from the Union?
Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860
What was the deadliest battle of the war? (Hint: It lasted 3 days)
The Battle of Gettysburg
What happens at the end of the book?
Abraham Lincoln dies, and Shad and Jenny return from Washinton D.C. and tell Jethro they are going to take him to go to school somewhere else
Why did Andrew Johnson not get along with the Radical Republicans in Congress?
What ended the Reconstruction Era?
The Panic of 1873, which shifted political attention to the economy and led to the removal of Northern soldiers from the occupied South in 1877.