Causes of the War
This 1860 event caused many Southern states to secede.
What is "the election of Abraham Lincoln"?
This 1820 deal admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as free.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This was the first state to leave the Union
What is South Carolina?
This proclamation changed the war’s purpose by declaring enslaved people free in rebel territories.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
More soldiers died from this than from battle wounds.
What is disease and sickness?
This act allowed settlers in Kansas and Nebraska to vote on slavery, leading to violence.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act (1854)?
This compromise in Congress let California join as a free state but included a stricter Fugitive Slave Act.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The Confederate attack on this location was the first major event of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This group of people could join the Union army after the Emancipation Proclamation.
Who are formerly enslaved people / African Americans?
The war caused this many deaths, making it America’s deadliest conflict.
What is between 600,000 - 750,000 deaths?
This principle meant settlers could vote on whether to allow slavery in their territory.
What is "popular sovereignty"?
These people believed slavery should not expand but could stay where it already existed.
Who are Free Soilers?
This major Union victory is considered the turning point of the Civil War?
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This document did not free enslaved people in border states like Kentucky and Missouri.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This Virginia town was the site of Robert E. Lee’s surrender in 1865.
What is Appomattox Court House?
The Kansas-Nebraska act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to a violent outburst in Kansas known as this.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This Supreme Court decision ruled that enslaved people were not citizens and had no rights.
What is the Dred Scott Decision?
This famous 1863 speech redefined the war as a fight for freedom and equality
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This legal amendment was necessary to truly end slavery across the entire United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This notorious march led to significant devastation in the state of Georgia.
This raid by a radical abolitionist made Southerners fear a slave revolt.
What is John Brown’s Raid on Harper's Ferry?
This nickname was given to people who threatened to break away from the Union if slavery was limited.
Who are Fire-Eaters?
After the Fort Sumter attack, these four states seceded.
What are Virginia, Arkansas, North Carolina, and Tennessee?
This legal amendment gave formerly enslaved people the ability to vote?
What is the 15th Amendment?
Many Northerners wanted this kind of policy toward the South after the war ended.
What is harsh punishment / strict Reconstruction?