Causes
The legislation that led to a disagreement in which the South believed that Congress did not have the authority to abolish slavery in the territories and prevent the spread of slavery.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is an event in which a president was killed on April 14, 1865.
What is the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
This battle involved the largest number of casualties and was a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This person was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who served as the president of the United States during the end of the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This was a plan implemented in order to aid reconstruction, by ensuring that enough people from the South would support the Union.
What is the 10% plan?
This event caused fear of slaves rebelling in the South and led to tighter restrictions on African Americans.
What is Nat Turner's Rebellion?
These laws were created to restrict the freedoms of African Americans. It was viewed by Northerners as an attempt to get around the 13th Amendment and continue slavery under a different name.
What are Black Codes?
This battle was on April 12, 1861, and marked the official beginning of the war. The Confederates attacked the United States military, and they ended up surrendering.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumpter?
Who is Fredrick Douglas?
This political party sought to impose a harsh version of Reconstruction over the former Confederate states following the Civil War. They also supported establishing and protecting the civil and voting rights of the newly freed Black population of the South
What are the Radical Republicans?
This court ruling which declared it illegal to abolish slavery, increasing tensions between the North and the South.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This government agency was created by Abraham Lincoln in order to aid the newly freed population in the South.
What is the Freed Men's Bureau?
This battle took place on April 6, 1862, in Southwestern Tennessee. It ended the Confederacy's hopes of blocking the Union's advance into Mississippi and doomed the Confederate military initiative in the West.
What is the Battle of Shiloh?
This person was a Confederate military general. They are most known for their effort to reunite the country following the American Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This group was a violent extremist group that started at the end of the Civil War. It targeted newly freed black populations and Republican politicians.
What is the Klu Klux Klan?
This legislation addressed territorial expansionism and pushed the nation further against slavery with a strengthened fugitive slave act and it threatened sectional peace.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
These laws mandated racial segregation as a policy in all public facilities in the southern states. "Separate but equal" segregation.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
This battle made it clear that the war would take longer than 90 days and would be much harder than expected. It occurred on July 21, 1861, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
What is the First Battle of Bull Run?
This person was a prominent abolitionist leader. They are best known for leading a raid in which five pro-slavery advocates were killed.
Who is John Brown?
This term refers to Northerners who moved to the South during Reconstruction to profit from the situation in the territory.
What is carpetbagger?
This political event was a turning point in the country that led to southern states seceding from the Union to form the Confederate States of America.
What is the election of Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment abolished slavery except as a punishment for a crime.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Union won this battle. It weakened the Confederacy by splitting it in half and isolating the Southern states of Louisiana, Texas, and Arkansas.
What is the Battle of Siege of Vicksburg?
This person served as the Superintendent of Army Nurses during the War. She later went on to advocate on behalf of the indigent mentally ill.
Who is Dorothea Dix?
The term for the policy addressed the debate on establishing a system in which black ownership of land and property in the South could be encouraged. It was part of the bill that created the Freedmen's Bureau.
What is Forty Acres and a Mule?