Civil War
What event started the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Reconstruction means what?
rebuild
What amendment bans slavery?
13th Amendment
Who is the president that wants to reunite the USA?
Abraham Lincoln
What is the name of the train tracks that connect the USA from the East to West?
Transcontinental Railroad
What battle was the turning point of the Civil War?
What region needed to be physically rebuilt after the Civil War?
South
What amendment grants citizenship and "equal protection under the law"?
14th Amendment
Who is a Confederate general from Virginia?
Robert E. Lee
What Eli Whitney invention increases the use of slave labor in the South?
Cotton gin
What event happens at Appomattox Courthouse?
Lee surrenders, end of the Civil War
What racist laws were created in 1865 to take away the rights of African Americans during the Civil War?
Black Codes
What racist laws are created following the end of Reconstruction and similar to Black Codes?
What former slave and abolitionist leader was known for giving speeches about ending slavery?
Frederick Douglass
Emancipation Proclamation
The election of who in 1860 is a major cause of the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What ends Reconstruction?
The Compromise of 1877
or
the election of Rutherford B. Hayes
What is the 14th Amendment granting people born in the USA?
Citizenship
Who helped lead enslaved people to freedom on the Underground Railroad?
Harriet Tubman
What short speech by President Lincoln dedicates a battlefield calling for the Civil War to end?
Gettysburg Address
What is the first state to succeed from the Union (USA)?
South Carolina
12 years
What amendment grants voting rights to all men regardless or race but
15th Amendment
Nat Turner, Gabriel Prosser, John Brown
What court case says Black Americans are not citizens of the USA?
Dred Scott decision