Causes of the Civil War
This law was an agreement between slave-owning states and free states in an attempt to keep one side from having more power than the other. This specific instance had Missouri entering as a slave state, and Maine entering as a free state to keep it balanced between the two sides.
Missouri Compromise
This Republican Presidential Candidate won the Election of 1860, which then lead to southern states seceding from the Union, beginning with South Carolina. When the Civil War began, he was the President of the Union, and was ultimately assassinated in 1865 by John Wilkes Booth.
Abraham Lincoln
During the Civil War, in a political move that was criticized, both Lincoln and Davis suspended this, which meant those imprisoned could be held in jail indefinitely and did not have to be brought to judge.
Habeas Corpus
He became president after Lincoln was assassinated and was at odds with the Radical Republican majority of Congress. Tensions became so high that he became the first president to be ____ for high crimes and misdemeanors, but was found not guilty.
Andrew Johnson; impeached
This Supreme Court decision said that slaves were to still be slaves even when travelling to free states. Because they were deemed as property, they were to always be so.
Scott v. Sanford (Dred Scott Decision)
He was the leading General for the Union armies, was seen as one of the few aggressive Northern military leaders, and accepted the Confederate General's surrender to end the Civil War in 1864.
Ulysses S. Grant
Due to the importance of the Confederacy's railroad system, General Sherman led Union troops to Georgia where the system's hub was located, resulting in this battle. Sherman and his forces overwhelmed and defeated Confederate forces defending the city.
Battle of Atlanta
In efforts to resist the strict readmittance plans, all former slave states enacted the ____, a set of laws to limit the freedoms given to African Americans in the newly added Constitutional Amendments. During this time, white Southerners also formed secret societies that used murder, arson, and other threatening actions to control freed African Americans/Blacks, and pressure them to not vote. The worst of these societies was known as the ________.
Black Codes; Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This abolitionist attempted to arm slaves to start a rebellion, getting weapons from the national armory in Harpers Ferry, but was unsuccessful in his attempts. This attempt was called _____, and he was executed for treason. Its lasting impact showed that abolitionists were willing to die for their efforts.
John Brown; John Brown's Raid
He was a general of the Confederate Armies who very popular among the South and was killed by friendly fire, which led to lower morale for Confederate troops and citizens.
Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
The Battle of ______, the first major Civil War battle, was the bloodiest single day battle, while the Battle of _____, the turning point of the war in favor of the Union, was the bloodiest battle overall (lasting 3 days). After this battle, Lincoln issued the ____ as a way to honor the dead and remind the nation that the Union needed to be preserved.
Antietam; Gettysburg; Gettysburg Address
The following Constitutional Amendments were created during and after the Civil War to protect the rights of the newly freed slaves. (in no particular order)
__th Amendment abolished slavery
__th Amendment removed voting restrictions based on race/color. All male US citizens over the age of 21 could vote.
__th Amendment defined US citizenship as including all persons born in the US regardless of race/color.
13th, 15th, 14th
This is the political practice used in which new-state citizens voted on whether or not the state should be free, or slave. It was at the center of this law, which resulted in Bleeding Kansas - an extremely violence event where people physically fought over whether Kansas would be a free or slave state.
Popular Sovereignty; Kansas-Nebraska Act
Jefferson Davis
The _____ (1861-65) centered around the issue of states rights, particularly about a state's right to practice _____. The conflict officially started with a Confederate victory at _________, located in Charleston, South Carolina.
Civil War; Slavery; Fort Sumter
DAILY DOUBLE!
When deciding how to readmit the Southern States back into the Union, there was a lot of disagreement between the Republican led Congress, and the President, ______. The ____ Plan had a quick readmittance for southern states, with them only needing to swear loyalty and end slavery. On the other hand, the ____ Plan was much stricter, with southern states having to pass the 13th, 14th, and 15th amendments, swear loyalty, and be under military control.
Andrew Johnson; Presidential Plan; Congressional Plan
The set of laws known as the ____ _ ___ , which eased sectional tensions over slavery for a short time, included the following key points: (1) California admitted as a free state, (2) slave trade was abolished in __________, and (3) the Fugitive Slave Act was strengthened.
Compromise of 1850; Washington DC
He was a Union general who led many victories, such as the Battle of Atlanta, which helped the reelection of Abraham Lincoln. He also led the "March to the Sea", a total war effort of widespread destruction through Georgia through Atlanta down to Savannah.
William T. Sherman
This battle took place along the Mississippi River, and was an important victory for the Union because it gave them control of a key mode of military transportation for the Confederacy, and split up the Confederacy.
Battle of Vicksburg
The ______ was created in 1865 by Congress in efforts to help African Americans/Blacks transition from slavery to freed life more easily by providing many services such as food, clothing, and job assistance. It ceased operations in 1872.
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands (also known as the Freedmen's Bureau)
DAILY DOUBLE!
What is the correct order of the following events?
- Bleeding Kansas - Compromise of 1850
- Kansas-Nebraska Act - Missouri Compromise
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Kansas-Nebraska Act, Bleeding Kansas
He was the leading general of the Confederacy, who was originally asked by Lincoln to lead the Union troops, but he declined.
Robert E. Lee
DAILY DOUBLE!
The following are Civil War events under Abraham Lincoln's presidency:
At the beginning of the war, Lincoln's main goal was to ________ (phrase)
This statement issued by Lincoln stated that all slaves within the Confederate States were to be freed. With this, the war became more of a moral issue.
As the war was coming to a close, this address by Lincoln was not used as a means to boast about a Union victory over the Confederates, but rather as a means to express sorrow that the states had not yet been able to resolves their issues peacefully.
Preserve the Union; Emancipation Proclamation; second inaugural address
Reconstruction ultimately ended with this event, when Rutherford B. Hayes, a Republican Presidential Candidate, agreed to end federal military control of the South in exchange for Southern congressional votes to secure him the Presidential election.
Compromise of 1877