Key Figures
This person was the Confederate President during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
These are the reasons why the North increasingly opposed slavery.
Moral and economic
This was the policy that Abraham Lincoln put into law, which announced that all slaves in the Southern states were no longer slaves.
The Emancipation Proclamation
This term describes the idea that individual states have more power than the federal government that unites all states.
States' Rights
This term describes a person who is devoted to the cause of ending the practice of slavery.
This key figure was a prominent abolitionist who pressed Lincoln to make the war about ending slavery.
Fredrick Douglas
This was Lincoln's primary goal at the start of the Civil War.
Preserve the Union
This term refers to the concept of being separated or divided or seen as different based on geographical sections or regions.
Sectionalism
This is the name the Southern states gave to themselves when they separated themselves from the United States of America.
The Confederate States of America
This term refers to the practice of keeping people separated from each other in public life based on their race.
Segregation
This person was the Union general who led armies to victory.
Ulysses S. Grant
This was the primary economic difference between the North and South before the Civil War.
Industrial vs. Agricultural economies
This economic event contributed to Northern fatigue with Reconstruction.
Panic of 1873
This group used terror tactics to intimidate Black voters during Reconstruction.
Ku Klux Klan
This event marked the effective end of the Civil War.
Lee's surrender at Appomattox
This key figure was the Confederate general who won many victories for the South but ultimately surrendered to end the war?
Robert E. Lee
Why did the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 trigger Southern secession?
He was seen as a direct threat to the expansion of slavery
This was the primary goal of the Freedmen's Bureau during Reconstruction.
To provide aid and support to formerly enslaved people
This amendment officially abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This system of laws emerged after Reconstruction to maintain racial segregation.
Jim Crow Laws
This person was the Republican candidate in the presidential election of 1860, who was opposed to the expansion of slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
This was the central issue driving tensions between the North and South before the Civil War.
Territorial expansion of slavery
This political event effectively ended Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
This amendment granted voting rights to African American men.
15th Amendment
This constitutional amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment