Causes of the Civil War
What 1860 event led to the secession of several Southern states?
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
What battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
Who was the President of the Confederate States of America?
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What amendment abolished slavery in the United States?
What is the 13th Amendment?
What law required citizens to return escaped enslaved people to their owners?
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Which city fell to Union forces in 1863, giving them control of the Mississippi River?
What is Vicksburg?
Which Union general later became the 18th President of the United States?
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
What were laws passed in Southern states to restrict African Americans’ rights after the Civil War?
What are Black Codes?
What 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans could not be citizens?
What is the Dred Scott decision?
What was the name of General Sherman’s destructive march through the South?
What is Sherman’s March to the Sea?
Who gave the Gettysburg Address in 1863?
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
What group used violence and intimidation to suppress African American voting and rights during Reconstruction?
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
What violent conflict in Kansas was a preview of the national divide over slavery?
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
Where did General Robert E. Lee surrender to end the Civil War?
What is Appomattox Court House?
Who was the African American abolitionist and former slave who advised Lincoln?
Who is Frederick Douglass?
What federal agency was created to help formerly enslaved people adjust to freedom?
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?