Tension Building Events
This compromise began the debates over slavery diving the country at the 36-30 parallel.
This was the first major fight or battle between the Confederates and Union army.
What was Ft. Sumter?
This was the name of the 10-15 year time period after the Civil War.
What was "Reconstruction"?
The President of the Union during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is where President Lincoln was assassinated
What is Ford's Theater?
This event triggered the Southern states to begin seceding from the Union.
What was Abraham Lincoln's election?
This battle was the bloodiest single day in American history.
What was Antietam?
This agriculture system replaced slavery once the 13th Amendment was created.
What was "Sharecropping" or Tenant Farming?
This slave led a rebellion against his master's family before the Civil War.
Who was Nat Turner?
This document inspired Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address"
What was the Declaration of Independence?
This law required all runaway slaves to returned to masters and held all Americans liable for helping their escape.
What was the Fugitive Slave Act?
This battle is considered the last major turning point of the war.
What was the Battle of Gettysburg?
This program was started by the Federal Government to aid newly-freed blacks and poor whites in the South after the Civil War.
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
This slave attempted to sue for his freedom in federal court and was denied.
Who is Dred Scott?
This term means a state's population can vote on the issue of slavery to determine the status of the state.
What is "Popular Sovereignty"?
This was seen as the first attempt to end the spread of slavery in new western states but never passes in Congress.
What was the Wilmot Proviso?
This battle gave the Union control of the lower Mississippi River?
What was the Battle of Vicksburg?
What was the 10% plan?
This woman is known as the "Little Lady who started the Civil War".
Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe?
This was the formal name for the southern strategy of outlasting the Union army.
What was a "War of Attrition"?
This anti-slavery advocate was present at Bleeding-Kansas and later led his own rebellion against slave owners.
Who was John Brown?
This battle convinced Lincoln to write the "Emancipation Proclamation"
What was Antietam?
This was the nickname given to Northerners who moved to the South to aid with Reconstruction programs.
What were "Carpetbaggers"?
This person was elected the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
What was the "Writ of Habeas Corpus?"