Causes
This issue divided North and South more than any other.
What is slavery?
Union president during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Amendment that ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
Agency helping formerly enslaved people with food and schools.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Civil War increased power of this level of government.
What is the federal government?
This law required escaped enslaved people to be returned.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
Confederate president during the Civil War.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Amendment granting citizenship and equal protection.
What is the 14th Amendment?
Southern laws limiting rights after the war.
What are Black Codes?
A literacy test blocking Black voting violated this amendment.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 1854 law led to Bleeding Kansas.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
Union general who later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Amendment protecting voting rights regardless of race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Farming system trapping many families in debt.
What is sharecropping?
Removing federal troops led to loss of protections in this region.
What is the South?
This Supreme Court case said enslaved people were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sandford?
General who used total war in Georgia.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This speech helped redefine the war as equality and union.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This compromise ended Reconstruction in 1877.
What is the Compromise of 1877?
Main goal of the Union at start of war.
What is preserve the Union?
This election triggered Southern secession in 1860.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Battle often called the turning point of the war.
What is Gettysburg?
Lincoln order freeing enslaved people in rebelling states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
Secret group using terror against Black voters.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
If a question mentions factories, unions, immigration, the next era is this.
What is Industrialization?