Causes
Law that made free states return escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Where the first shots of the Civil War were fired
What is Fort Sumter?
Divided the South into military districts and put it under Marshall Law
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
Less railroads
What is a Confederate disadvantage?
Gave all males the right to vote despite race or previous servitude
What is the 15th Amendment?
Armed clashes between pro slavery forces and abolitionist settlers
What is Bleeding Kansas?
The Union used this plan to cut off Confederate supplies
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This groups main goal was to restore southern democrats to political power
What was is the Klu Klux Klan?
More people
What is a Union advantage?
This motivated African American men to enlist in the Union army
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
The two main reasons the civil war started
What is the importance of states' rights and slavery?
Event that freed all slaves in the Confederate States
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
A federal organization that created schools for African Americans
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
Brilliant commanders
The Reconstruction-era policy that granted voting rights only to people whose parents' parents had been legally able to vote
What is the Grandfather Clause?
What did the 1860 presidential election of Lincoln do?
Destroyed the south's strategic capacity and will to fight
What did General Sherman's "March to the Sea" do?
The reason behind president Johnson's impeachment
Disagreements with Radical Republicans in Congress (specifically over Reconstruction)
Able to travel better because they were more industrialized
What is a Union disadvantage?
Lincoln's main goal during the war which he stated during the Gettysburg Address
Preserving the Union?
A political party that opposed the extension of slavey
What is the Republican Party?
The first all-black regiment in the U.S. army
What is the 54th Massachusetts regiment?
It appointed Hayes as president, removed federal troops from the South, and officially ended Reconstruction
Naval superiority that allowed them to blockade enemy trade
What is a Union advantage?
Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race
What is Jim Crow Laws?