Important People
This man was an abolitionist that believed that God had chosen him to end slavery in the United States. Considered a terrorist to the South and a hero to the North, he was executed his failed raid at Harpers Ferry.
Who is John Brown?
April 9, 1865, marked the official surrender of the Confederate Army, General Robert E. Lee met with General Ulysses S. Grant at the courthouse of this Virginia town, effectively ending the Civil War (Mr. Way briefly lived in his moms attic just down the street)
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This 1820 agreement tried to maintain the balance between free and slave states by admitting Missouri as a slave state and this state as a free one
What is Maine?
This term refers to the act of setting someone free from slavery or bondage, a major goal of the Union during the Civil War.
What is Emancipation?
This amendment abolished slavery and involuntary servitude throughout the nation, except as punishment for a crime that a person has been duly convicted of.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The 17th President of the United states, this former Tennessee representative "DREW" up a lenient reconstruction plan that did not punish the south for the Civil War.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This decisive 1863 battle resulted in Union forces gaining control of the Mississippi River, effectively splitting the Confederacy and marking a major turning point that helped secure ultimate victory for the Union in the Civil War
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
The Compromise of 1850 included admitting California as a free state and passing this strict law that required northers to turn in escaped slaves.
What is The Fugitive Slave Law?
This word means a formal withdrawal from an organization or alliance, as several Southern states did from the United States in 1860 and 1861.
What is Secession?
This Amendment granted citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the United States, including formerly enslaved people, and prohibited states from depriving any person of "life, liberty, or property, without due process of law"
What is the 14th Amendment?
This "Greatest Union general", renowned for his strategic victories at battles such as Vicksburg, played a crucial role in leading the Union Army to victory during the Civil War and later became the 18th President of the United States.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
In addition to a larger population and greater industrial capacity, and an extensive BLANK network, helped the Union outlast the Confederacy during the Civil War
What is Railroads?
The Kansas Nebraska Act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote for themselves whether to allow slavery, a concept known as what?
What is Popular Sovereignty?
We use this term to describe the post-war period from 1865 to 1877 dedicated to reuniting the Southern states with the Union and addressing the rights of formerly enslaved people
What is Reconstruction?
This Amendment prohibits the denial of voting rights to U.S. citizens based on "race, color, or previous condition of servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
Before becoming the President of the Confederate States during the Civil War, this leader served as a U.S. Senator from Mississippi and as Secretary of War under 14th President of The United States, Franklin Pierce.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Union victory in this pivotal 1863 battle marked a turning point in the Civil War, and months later, President Abraham Lincoln delivered a famous speech at its cemetery in Pennsylvania, beginning with the words “Four score and seven years ago.”
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
On April 14, 1865, five days after the end of the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated by a confederate sympathizer at this famous theater. (it shares its name with a popular car and truck manufacturer.)
What is Fords Theater
This term means a formal, official change or addition made to a document, law, contract, or constitution. In US History is refers to an addition or change to our national constitution.
What is an Amendment
This term an enslaved person who legally gained freedom was most popular during and just after the Civil War
What is a Freedman?
This man was an enslaved African-American man who, along wt, unsuccessfully sued for the freedom , in the "BLANK v. Sandford" case of 1857.
Who is Dred Scott?
This Union General was responsible for implementing the famous Anaconda Plan, a military strategy that involved placing naval blockades and sending troops to surrounded the south and cutting it off from supplies.
Who is General Winfield Scott?
This executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863 declared freedom for enslaved people in Confederate states providing the Union with a "Moral Purpose" for the war.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This holiday commemorates the day in 1865 enslaved people in Texas learned of their freedom, marking the effective end of slavery in the United States.
What is Juneteenth?
This terrorist hate group emerged during reconstruction and used violence to intimidate African Americans and keep them from voting.
What is the Klu Klux Klan?