Causes
The U.S. Civil War was fought over this issue?
The right of southern states to enslave people.
This person served as President of the United States during the American Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
First major battle of the Civil War, fought in Virginia.
First battle of Bull Run (Manassas). 1861
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
The 13th Ammendment.
This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This person served as the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1863 battle in Pennsylvania is often called the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
Government agency created to assist formerly enslaved people with food, education, and jobs.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
This law required Northerners to assist in returning escaped enslaved people.
The Fugitive Slave Acts (1850).
This woman was famous for her work freeing enslaved people as part of the underground railroad, as well as serving as a spy for the Union army.
Who is Harriet Tubman?
Grant’s victory here gave the Union control of the Mississippi River.
What is the Siege of Vicksburg?
Laws passed in Southern states immediately after the war to control freed people.
What are the Black Codes?
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What are the Jim Crow Laws?
Black Codes were the precursors to the Jim Crow laws.
Violent conflict in this territory was caused by popular sovereignty over slavery.
What is "Bleeding Kansas"?
This man had been enslaved, but escaped. He wrote an autobiography, and became one of the most famous abolitionists of his time.
Who is Fredrick Douglass?
The Civil War effectively ended when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant at this courthouse?
Appomattox Court House. April, 1865
Amendment granting citizenship to all born in the U.S., including former enslaved people.
This event specifically caused the Southern States to secede from the Union.
The election of Abraham Lincoln.
This woman was a nurse who later founded the American Red Cross.
Who is Clara Barton?
Lincoln used this Union “victory” to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is Antietam?
This Reconstruction-era amendment granted Black men the right to vote, stating that voting rights could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?