Before the Storm
This law allowed new territories to decide the issue of slavery by popular sovereignty.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This was the first shots of the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
This was President Lincoln’s plan to reunite the nation quickly and easily.
What is the Ten Percent Plan?
These laws were designed to limit the rights of African Americans after the war.
What are Black Codes?
He was President of the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that enslaved people were property, not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
This battle is known as the turning point of the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This president took over after Lincoln and clashed with Congress over Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This agency helped formerly enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
He was the president of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe exposed the horrors of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This Union victory in 1863 gave the North control of the Mississippi River and split the Confederacy in two.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
This group in Congress wanted to punish the South and protect rights for freedmen.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This amendment gave African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This African American abolitionist gave speeches and published an anti-slavery newspaper.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This violent event occurred when pro-slavery and anti-slavery settlers clashed in Kansas.
What is “Bleeding Kansas”?
The Civil War ended when the Robert E. Lee surrendered in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This amendment abolished slavery in the U.S.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This term refers to farming where freedmen worked land in exchange for a share of crops.
What is sharecropping?
This former enslaved woman helped lead people to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
This abolitionist's raid on a federal arsenal hoped to spark a slave rebellion.
Who is John Brown?
This document issued by President Lincoln freed slaves in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the U.S.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This secret group used violence to keep African Americans from voting.
What is the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)?
This nurse became famous for helping wounded soldiers and later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?