Causes
Law that made free states return escaped slaves
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
Fighting to protect their homes and families
What is a Confederacy advantage?
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?
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?
Few railroads
What is a Confederacy disadvantage?
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?
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?
Weak commanders
What is a Union disadvantage?
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?
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?
Organized navy and military
What is a Union advantage?
Destroyed the south's strategic capacity and will to fight
What did General Sherman's "March to the Sea" do?
The reasons behind president Johnson's impeachment (there's 2)
What is the importance of Reconstruction in the South and clashes in government between Democrats and Republicans?
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?
No support from home
What is a Union disadvantage?
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
Laws requiring that facilities and accommodations, public and private, be segregated by race
What is Jim Crow Laws?