Years before the War
Sectional differences developed between the North and South because of these two issues.
What are slavery and tariffs?
The opening shots of the Civil War where fired here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This type of combat was very common during the Civil War.
What is hand to hand combat?
These are the three amendments referred to as the "Civil War Amendments".
What are the 13th, 14th and 15th?
Preserving the Union was this man's goal throughout the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This man tried to sue for his freedom.
Who is Dred Scott?
Lincoln released the Emancipation Proclamation after this battle (the single bloodiest day in American history)
What is Antietam?
This document allowed freed African Americans to fight in the Union Military.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group of people rose to power after the assassination of Lincoln.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This was the man Robert E. Lee surrendered too at Appomattox.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
South Carolina seceded from the union after this election.
What is the election of 1860?
This was the turning point in the War for the North.
What is Gettysburg?
The harsh conditions for soldiers were often recorded in these.
What are diaries and letters?
This ended reconstruction and opened the door for the Jim Crow era.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
This man was elected the president of the Confederate States
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Zachary Taylor, Millard Fillmore, Franklin Pierce and James Buchanan are examples of this cause of the Civil War.
What is Ineffective Presidential Leadership in the 1850s?
This is where Lee surrendered to Grant.
They assumed roles in agriculture, nursing and war industries.
Who are women?
This amendment grants universal male suffrage.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This is the man who assassinated Abraham Lincoln.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
Lincoln said "so you're the little woman who wrote this book that made this great war" about her.
Who is Harriet Breecher Stowe?
These two major southern cities were destroyed during the Civil War.
What are Richmond and Atlanta?
In this speech, Lincoln defended democracy on a major Civil War battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This man was president for the majority of Reconstruction, also overseeing its end.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Fredrick Douglass severed as the ambassador to this country.
What is Haiti?