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Civil War Beginnings
General 1
General 2
Laws and Lives 1
Laws and Lives 2
100
What was the economy of the North?
Industrial, Factories, Manufacturing
100
A textbook, a magazine article, and a book review are examples of what?
Secondary source
100
A diary, new scientific discoveries, letters, and interviews are examples of what?
Primary source
100
This law freed the slaves in the Southern states during the war.
Emancipation Proclamation
100
Freed men gained the right to vote under this law.
15th Amendment
200
What was the economy of the South?
Agricultural, Farming
200
After the Civil War the South was slowly being readmitted into the Union. What was this period called?
Reconstruction
200
This organization used terror and violence against minority groups especially African Americans.
Ku Klux Klan
200
This law gave equal protection under the law and citizenship to African Americans.
14th Amendment
200
This law ended slavery in all of the states and territories in the nation.
13th Amendment
300
The nation was divided into factions or sections. Name the two sections.
The Union (North) and the Confederacy (South)
300
This group of Republicans sought the end of slavery and equality for freed men.
Radical Republicans
300
What was a major advantage the North had in the War?
Industrial capacity (manufacturing, production)
300
This prevented most African Americans and poor Southern whites from being able to vote.
Poll taxes
300
This was a barrier to voting for African Americans because most could not read or write.
Literacy tests
400
Which side had the better military tradition during the Civil War?
The South
400
This African American leader believed that freed men should concentrate on learning vocational job skills.
Booker T. Washington
400
This job usually left the farmer in debt to farm owners. Workers often needed to pay to use owner’s tools. Many African Americans took these jobs.
Sharecropping
400
This agency gave relief for former slaves in the form of food, education, and legal advice.
Freedman's Bureau
400
These laws aimed to limit the freedom of newly freed slaves.
Black codes
500
What was Abraham Lincoln’s primary goal in the Civil War?
To preserve the Union. To keep the country together.
500
After the Civil War, who held more power? States or the Federal government?
The Federal or Central government in Washington, D.C.
500
The Civil War has been described as a war between state’s rights versus federal power. What was the state’s rights issue that was being fought?
Slavery
500
This Supreme Court case concluded that “separate but equal” facilities were legal.
Plessy v. Ferguson
500
These laws legalized segregation of whites and blacks in the South.
Jim Crow laws