Causes
What was the main cause of the Civil War?
slavery
This was the first battle of the Civil War.
Fort Sumter
"All slaves shall forever be freed." This is from what speech by Lincoln?
Emancipation Proclamation
This woman led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Harriet Tubman
What was the purpose of reconstruction?
rebuild the country after the Civil War
What issue did the Compromise of 1850, the Missouri Compromise, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all deal with?
slavery in new states
This was the Turning Point of the Civil War.
Gettysburg
What happened to Abe Lincoln at Ford's Theatre?
assassinated (killed)
This man was the president of the Union during the Civil War.
Abraham Lincoln
How did the Freedman's bureau help the reconstruction efforts?
providing supplies, food, schooling, legal aide to newly freed slaves
The idea that states should have the power to nullify federal laws was popular in the South. What was this idea called?
This was the bloodiest battle of the Civil War.
Antietam
This is where General Lee surrendered to General Grant.
Appomattox Courthouse
This man was the president of the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
What was the purpose of the Black Codes?
limit the freedoms of the newly emancipated people
These people were fighting for the banning of slavery.
abolitionists
This was the battle that split the Confederacy up when the Union took control of the Mississippi River.
Vicksburg
This speech was given on a battlefield and it urged the country to end the war and reunite.
Gettysburg Address
This man was the most successful Union general during the Civil War, and would go on to become the 18th president of the US.
Ulysses S Grant
Why did the Radical Republicans impeach Andrew Johnson?
they thought he was going too easy on the southern states
the Southern states seceded from the Union
How did the Battles affect the South?
lost a lot of men and destroyed buildings, farms, and railroads
What ideas of Lincoln's are found through his 2 inaugural addresses?
unity and liberty
This man was the most successful Confederacy general.
13- free; 14- citizenship; 15- voting rights