Causes of Civil War
Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote the novel, ___________________________ which highlighted the cruelty of slavery. This created a deeper divide between the North and South on the debate about slavery.
Uncle Toms Cabin
___________________________The rebuilding of the former Confederate states after the Civil War
Reconstruction
What was the name of the first battle of the Civil War? _______________
Fort Sumter
What amendment outlawed Slavery
13th
The Civil War was an immediate result of Slavery.
True
False
TRUE
The Kansas and Nebraska act allowed the residents to vote if slavery was legal. In Kansas, pro-slavery and anti slavery could not agree and set up two governments. This created violence and people even died. The acts of violence became known as....
Bleeding Kansas
___________________________A person freed from slavery
Freedmen
What battle of the Civil War was Considered the Turning Point?
Battle of Gettysburg
What was the Ku Klux Klan?
A. group dedicated to protecting Civil Rights and equality
B. terrorist group which used violence and intimidation tactics to fight against civil rights for African Americans.
B. terrorist group which used violence and intimidation tactics to fight against civil rights for African Americans.
_____________________________ Laws passed in the South, just after the Civil War aimed at controlling freedmen
Black Codes
In a landmark decision, the court declared that black Americans are not citizens. This created outrage and abolitionists believed it went against the idea that all men are created equal.
_____________________________________
Dred Scott VS Sanford
_________The separation or isolation of a race, class, or group
Segregation
Which state seceded from the United States first?
__________________________
South Carolina
What provided equal protection for all people under the law and stated all people born in the USA are citizen
14th Amendment
____________________________- A method used to prevent African Americans from voting by voters to read and write at a specified level
Literacy Test
__________________________ was a rebellion against slavery. This created a storm of anger and hate right before the Election of 1860. Southerners protest they do not want a northerner like Abraham Lincoln in office.
John Browns Raid
____________________________ System of farming in which a farmer works on land for the landowner. The owner then provides equipment and seeds and receives a share of the crop
Sharecropping
True or false: The emancipation Proclamation ended slavery in every state in the US
True
False
False: Only in Confederate States. DID NOT INCLUDE THE BORDER STATES
. _____Amendment- all male citizens have the right to vote
15th
______________________________________This plan stated If 10% of Southern voters swore an oath of loyalty to the United States and agreed to emancipation they would be pardoned and not viewed as “traitors”
Lincolns 10% Plan
_________________________________ was a series of five laws. California became a free state and Utah and New Mexico became slave states.
The ____________________________ was passed allowed southerners to capture runaway or free slaves from the north and return them back to slavery
Compromise of 1850 & Fugitive Slave Law
_________________These laws stated that if your ancestors could vote before the Civil War, then you did not have to pass the reading test. This allowed for white people who could not read to vote.
Grandfather Clause
The Kansas-Nebraska Act was an 1854 law that allowed settlers of Kansas and Nebraska to decide whether slavery would be allowed. Why did this anger the North?
A: Because it was agreed that these states would not allow slavery
B: Because it was agreed that these states would allow slavery
A
___________________________A tax of a fixed amount per person that had to be paid before the person could vote
Poll Tax
Who was the President of the Confederacy?
________________________________
Jefferson Davis