Causes: Civil War
This idea allowed settlers in a territory to decide whether slavery would be allowed.
Popular Sovereignty
The greatest advantage of the south during the civil war?
They just had to play defense and did not have to win
These laws in the South restricted the rights of African Americans after the Civil War.
Black Codes
This president led the Union during the Civil War.
Abe Lincoln
This document declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
Emancipation Proclamation
This compromise admitted California as a free state and included a stricter fugitive slave law.
Compromise of 1850
This 1863 battle is considered the turning point of the Civil War in the East.
Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
13th Amendment
This abolitionist escaped slavery and became a conductor on the Underground Railroad.
This organization used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction and civil rights.
KKK
This 1854 act repealed the Missouri Compromise and led to violent conflict in Kansas.
Kansas Nebraska Act
Renowned as the best union general and commander of the entire union army. He is also on the $50.00 bill
Ulysses S Grant
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
14th Amendment
This Confederate general commanded the Army of Northern Virginia and the majority of the confederate forces
Robert E Lee
This speech redefined the purpose of the Civil War and emphasized equality and unity.
Gettysburg Address
This Supreme Court decision ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in territories.
Dredd Scott Case
This Union victory in 1862 allowed Lincoln to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
Battle of Antietem
This agreement effectively ended Reconstruction and removed federal troops from the South.
Compromise of 1877
This formerly enslaved man became a leading abolitionist and speaker.
Frederick Douglas
This system replaced slavery in the South, where farmers worked land owned by others in exchange for a share of the crops, often leading to cycles of debt.
Sharecropping
This raid by an abolitionist on a federal arsenal increased tensions between North and South before the war.
John Browns Raid on Harpers Ferry
This Union general led a destructive march through Georgia to the sea that weakened the Confederacy destroying their railway network:
William Sherman
President during the early reconstruction period and would later be impeached:
Andrew Johnson
This woman served as a Union nurse during the Civil War and later founded the American Red Cross.
Clara Barton
Newspaper written by William Lloyd Garrison that furthered the abolitionist movement
The Liberator