Sectionalism and Causes
The Missouri Compromise, the Compromise of 1850, and the Kansas-Nebraska Act all addressed whether this would be allowed in new western territories.
What is Slavery?
This was the bloodiest single-day battle of the Civil War and led to the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
This battle was the farthest north the Confederate army advanced and marked a turning point in the war.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This organization provided food, shelter, education, and legal assistance to formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This amendment ended slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
The Southern economy relied heavily on plantations and the production of this specific cash crop
What is Cotton?
Southern leaders believed that leaving the United States was justified through this process.
What is Secession?
This siege was important because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
In this system, farmers worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops.
What is Sharecropping?
This amendment granted African American men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and could not sue in federal court.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
In his first inaugural address, Abraham Lincoln stated this was his main goal as president.
What is to Preserve the Union?
The Union used this naval tactic against Southern ports to weaken the Southern economy.
What is a Blockade?
Sharecropping often trapped farmers in this because they had to borrow money for supplies.
What is Debt?
This amendment forbids states from denying any person "equal protection of the laws".
What is the 14th Amendment?
This agreement after the U.S. Mexican War attempted to balance free and slave states but increased tensions.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Union weakened the South by enforcing this on Confederate goods.
What is an Embargo?
While the Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point, the Civil War officially came to an end when General Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this Virginia location.
What is Appomattox Court House?
These two methods were used by the South to deny citizens the right to vote on account of race.
What are Literacy tests and Poll taxes?
This group in Congress established the Freedman's bureau and led the impeachment of Andrew Johnson.
Who were the Radical Republicans?
This act increased tensions because it forced Northerners to help return escaped enslaved people.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
There were no casualties in this battle, although it's credited to starting the Civil War.
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter?
Although it did not immediately free all enslaved people, this 1863 executive order shifted the purpose of the war to include the abolition of slavery and allowed African Americans to enlist in the Union army.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
These laws were a Southern reaction to the 13th and 14th Amendments to restrict the rights of African Americans.
What are Black Codes?
Under the Reconstruction Act, the Confederacy (minus Tennessee) was divided into 5 of these, each governed by a Union General.
What are Military Districts?