People
Who was the main general for the Confederacy?
Robert E. Lee
What battle showed the war would be difficult for the Union to win?
Bull Run
Who had the advantages of larger population and more industry?
The North (The Union)
What act forced Northerners to help capture runaway enslaved people?
Fugitive Slave Act
What was the period called right after the Civil War?
Reconstruction
Who gave the Gettysburg Address?
Abraham Lincoln
What event had Union troops destroying Southern infrastructure and equipment?
Sherman's March to the Sea
What two states on the West coast were part of the Union?
California, Oregon
What is popular sovereignty?
When people vote on an issue (slavery).
Who is president after Abraham Lincoln?
Andrew Johnson
Who wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
What did the Emancipation Proclamation do?
Freed all enslaved people in areas rebelling against the U.S (Confederacy).
What is special about the Border States?
They had slavery, but stayed with the Union.
What two states were added during the Missouri Compromise in 1820? Were they free or slave states?
Maine (free) Missouri (slave)
What group formed to intimidate black Americans after the Civil War?
The KKK
Who did not pursue Robert E. Lee after the battle of Antietam?
George McClellan
What two battles happened on almost the same day?
Vicksburg and Gettysburg
What state was added to the U.S because of the Civil War?
W. Virginia
What event caused Southerners to worry that abolitionists would spill blood for their cause?
John Brown's raid on Harpers Ferry
Black Codes, Jim Crow laws
Who founded the Red Cross?
Clara Barton
Where did the Confederacy officially surrender?
Appomattox Courthouse
Name all 11 states that joined the Confederacy
Virginia, N.Carolina, S.Carolina, Tennessee, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana,
What was Lincoln's stance on slavery when he was elected in 1860?
That he would not let slavery to continue to expand
What are the 3 amendments passed after the Civil War? What do they do?
13 - Outlaw of slavery
14 - Citizenship, equal protection
15 - vote