Causes of Civil War
This economic and labor system in the South was the central cause of sectional conflict.
What is slavery?
This was the first major battle of the Civil War, fought in 1861 in Virginia.
What is the Battle of Bull Run
He was President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This 1863 document declared enslaved people in Confederate states to be free.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This group of Republicans in Congress wanted harsh punishment for the South.
Who are the Radical Republicans?
This 1820 compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state
What is the Missouri Compromise
This 1863 battle was the turning point of the war in the East.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This abolitionist leader pushed Lincoln to make the war about ending slavery.
Who is Frederick Douglass?
This short 1863 speech redefined the war as a struggle for equality and democracy.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
This system forced many formerly enslaved people into cycles of debt working Southern land.
What is sharecropping?
This 1854 act allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska, leading to violence known as “Bleeding Kansas.”
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
This Union naval strategy aimed to blockade Southern ports and control the Mississippi River.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This Confederate general was known as “Stonewall” after the First Battle of Bull Run.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
These Northern Republicans who moved South during Reconstruction were given this negative nickname.
Who are carpetbaggers?
This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and that Congress could not ban slavery in the territories.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This general led the Union forces to victory at Vicksburg, gaining control of the Mississippi River.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This Union president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This white supremacist group used violence to oppose Reconstruction policies.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
This 1860 election victory by a Republican candidate led several Southern states to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Confederate general surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Court House in 1865.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This president was impeached in 1868 for violating the Tenure of Office Act.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
This amendment prohibited denying the right to vote based on race.
What is the 15th Amendment?
This 1877 agreement resolved the disputed presidential election and ended Reconstruction.
What is the Compromise of 1877?