Civil War/ Reconstruction Review

Secession & Slavery

100

The first state to leave the Union, sparking the secession crisis

South Carolina

200

This book stirred Northern opposition to slavery through emotional storytelling

Uncle Tom's Cabin

300

This act allowed territories to vote on slavery, increasing sectional tensions

Kansas-Nebraska Act

400

This compromise admitted California as a free state and enforced a stricter Fugitive Slave Law

Compromise of 1850

500

This term described violent confrontations in Kansas over slavery

Bleeding Kansas

Battles & Military Strategy

100

This battle marked a turning point by halting Lee's invasion of the North

Battle of Gettysburg

200

This Union plan aimed to blockade the South and split it in two

Anaconda Plan

300

Sherman's destructive campaign through Georgia used this strategy

Total War

400

This battle gave the Union control of the Mississippi River

Battle of Vicksburg

500

This event marked the official end of the Civil War when General Lee surrendered to General Grant

Surrender at Appomattox Court House

Reconstruction & Social Change

100

This agency provided food, education, and legal help to freed slaves

Freedmen's Bureau

200

These laws restricted African American freedoms after the Civil War

Black Codes

300

This group used terror to suppress African American rights

Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

400

This system kept freedmen economically dependent and in debt

Sharecropping

500

These Southern whites supported Reconstruction and were often seen as traitors

Scalawags

Legislation & Amendments

100

This amendment abolished slavery

13th

200

This amendment protected voting rights regardless of race

15th

300

This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection

14th

400

This Compromise tried to balance free and slave states in 1820

Missouri Compromise

500

These laws enforced racial segregation in public spaces and denied African Americans equal access to education, transportation, and other services

Jim Crow Laws

Miscellaneous People and Events

100

This president's election in 1860 led to Southern secession

Abraham Lincoln

200

Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were called this

Carpetbaggers

300

This group wanted harsher Reconstruction policies and civil rights protections

Radical Republicans

400

This case ruled that enslaved people were not citizens

Dred Scott v. Sandford

500

This case upheld segregation under "separate but equal"

Plessy v. Ferguson