This event in South Carolina started the Civil War
What is the Attack on Fort Sumter
100
Term for someone who wanted to end slavery
What is an abolitionist
100
This group aimed to keep blacks inferior to whites.
What is the KKK
100
This person was a "conductor" and helped slaves escape through the Underground Railroad.
Who is Harriet Tubman.
200
Commanding Union General towards the end of the war - later became president.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant
200
What are two of the states that allowed slavery that did NOT leave the union?
What are: Delaware, Maryland, Kentucky, Missouri, and West Virginia.
200
Name one major difference about the economy between the North and the South before the Civil War
What is: The North was more industrialized and had more factories and railroads. The South relied on agriculture on large plantations and was not very connected.
200
This term refers to the work that that a majority of freed slaves did after the war. They would rent land and give part of their crop to the landowner.
What is a sharecropper (or tenant farmer).
200
Lincoln issued this after the battle of Antietam.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation.
300
Commander of the Confederate Army
Who is Robert E. Lee
300
This battle that was fought in Pennsylvania was a Union victory and ended the South's campaign to invade the North.
What is Gettysburg
300
This Compromise allowed Maine to become part of the United States as a free state.
What is the Missouri Compromise of 1820. Missouri entered the US as a slave state; Maine as a free state. This allowed for there to still be an equal number of slave and free states in the Senate.
300
These were set up to restrict the rights of freed slaves.
What are "Black Codes"
300
He was a photojournalist during the Civil War and took photos of the battles for the American public to see.
Who is Mathew Brady
400
President of the Confederate States of America
Who is Jefferson Davis
400
This battle had the effect of splitting the Confederacy in half because the Union gained control of the Mississippi river.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg.
400
This court case angered abolitionists because it declared that slaves were not citizens (and therefore not allowed to sue in federal court).
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford.
400
This amendment guaranteed citizenship and equal protection under the law to all Americans.
What is the 14th Amendment.
400
This amendment guaranteed that the right to vote would not be denied based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment.
500
Abraham Lincoln's Vice President. Became president after Lincoln's assassination. President during Reconstruction.
Who is Andrew Johnson
500
This general led troops from Atlanta to Savannah and used the harsh "scorched earth" military tactic.
Who is General Sherman - Sherman's March to Sea
500
What did the Kansas-Nebraska act determine about the two territories and slavery?
It allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. This idea is called "popular sovereignty."
500
The ______________ had the majority in Congress and supported measures such as _______________ that helped provide support to freed slaves (job training, food, shelter, clothes, etc.)
RADICAL REPUBLICANS ; FREEDMAN's BUREAU
500
What was the dispute over TARIFFS before the war? What did the North want? What did the South want?
NORTH wanted HIGH tariffs on imported goods (wanted people to buy their manufactured goods). SOUTH wanted LOW tariffs on imported goods (needed a lot of manufactured goods, wanted cheap goods).