Causes
Outbreak
The War
Reconstruction
Other
100
The Confederate States of America's Constitution included this word that was intentionally absent from the United States Constitution.
What is slave/slavery?
100
The Civil War is considered by some the first _______ war.
What is modern?
100
This Union plan aimed to cut off the Confederates from exporting cash crops and exhausting the South's supplies.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
100
This federal program provided social services for formerly enslaved Black Americans in the South.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
100
The blue states represent this side of the Civil War, while the red states represent the other.
What is Union and Confederacy?
200
This act forced the federal government to actively fund and seek out escaped enslaved people and return them to their enslavers.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
200
This side had the more difficult military objective since they had to invade, conquer and pacify hostile territory.
What is the Union/North?
200
This 300 mile march across Georgia resulted in the destruction of Southern infrastructure, crops, and buildings.
What is Sherman's March to the Sea?
200
This political group wrestled control of Reconstruction away from the presidency to ensure that the South would be punished and Black Americans protected.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
200
Lincoln's reconstruction plan was focused on these aspects rather than retribution and punishment.
What is mercy, reconciliation, readmittance...?
300
This event (battle) sparked the Civil War.
What is the firing at Fort Sumter?
300
The South only had to wage this type of war.
What is a defensive war?
300
This battle gave Lincoln the win needed to announce his preliminary Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
300
This event ended reconstruction with an agreement to remove Union troops from the South and give back control of Southern governments to the democrats.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
300
This amendment freed all enslaved individuals.
What is the 13th Amendment?
400
This supreme court case contributed to the outbreak of war by overturning the Compromise of 1850 and stating that slavery could not be prohibited anywhere in the United States.
What is Dred Scott v. Stanford?
400
The telegraph affected warfare in this way.
What is coordinating distant operations?
400
The Emancipation Proclamation notably left out freeing enslaving people from these key locations.
What are the Union border slaveholding states?
400
This supreme court decision led to segregation in the South and the doctrine of "separate but equal."
What is Plessy v. Fergusson?
400
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
500
This movement opposed opposed the extension of
slavery in the western territories.
What is the free soil movement?
500
Jefferson Davis' failure to obtain _________ greatly hinder the Confederate war effort.
What is foreign alliances?
500
The Union victories at Vicksburg and Atlanta gave the Union control over this important objective.
What is control over waterways?
500
What does this excerpt tell us about the United States after the Civil War? "The Union’s industrial and economic capacity soared during the war as the North continued its rapid industrialization. . . . Nearly every sector of the Union economy witnessed increased production."
The U.S. would emerge as a world power.
500
This amendment gave citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the United States, including formally enslaved individuals.
What is the 14th Amendment?