Before the War
North
South
Civil War
Reconstruction
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What did the Fugitive Slave Act require of Northern Citizens?
Required Northern citizens to cooperate with and assist slave-catchers, and Northern Courts had to try fugitives in separate courts.
100
What were the Northern States called?
The Union
100
What were the Southern states called?
Confederate States of America
100
What was the first battle of the civil war?
The First Battle of Bull Run
100
What was the Freedmen's Bureau? What did it do?
An agency to help the newly freed slaves by providing education, food, housing, and medical aid
200
What was the first state to secede (leave) from the US?
South Carolina
200
Who was the North's president?
Abraham Lincoln
200
Who was elected as the South's president?
Jefferson Davis
200
What does the Thirteenth Amendment signify?
The legal end to slavery in the United States
200
What happened to president Abraham Lincoln?
He was assassinated at Ford's Theatre
300
What is popular soveriegnty?
authority of the people / people living in the state should vote to decide about slavery
300
What were people called who escaped slavery and worked behind union lines supporting the Union cause called?
Contraband
300
What were the large farms where many slaves lived and worked called?
Plantations
300
What was the deadliest one-day battle in all of U.S. History?
Battle of Antietam
300
What does the Fourteenth Amendment do?
It guarantees the rights of citizenship to everyone born or naturalized in the US, including due process and equal protection under the law
400
How did Lincoln feel about war OR slavery before the war started?
war - war is not a reasonable option, we should all be friends
slavery - slavery shouldn't be completely abolished, but shouldn't spread
400
What were people who were against slavery called?
Abolitionists
400
What city was the CSA capital?
Richmond, Virginia
400
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
It declared that enslaved people in areas controlled by the Confederate army were freed
400
What does the Fifteenth Amendment do?
Made it illegal to deny citizents the right to vote based on race (black men could now vote.)
500
What was one ruling by the Supreme Court in the Dred Scott decision?
Dred Scott did not have the right to sue because he was not a citizen.
500
Which General decided to attack Southern morale and resources, starting total war?
Ulysses S. Grant
500
Which General had to surrender to the North and end the war?
Robert E. Lee
500
Which battle was a major turning point in the Civil War and the site of Lincoln's famous address?
Battle of Gettysburg
500
What were Jim Crow Laws?
They legalized segregation based on race.