Pre-Civil War
Name one cause of the civil war
Mexican-American War, States vs Federal rights, and etc..
True or False:
Slaves fought for the North after emancipation
True
True or False:
Robert Lee succesfully invades and conqueres the North
False
Laws passed in Southern states that restricted travel and other rights of black people
Black codes
The Compromise of 1850 diffused tensions between the __ and __ in the years leading up to the Civil War
North and South
True or False:
The Southern economy flourished after emancipation
False
The North outnumbered the South at a ratio of _:_
2:1
This amendment creates black freedom
13th amendment
What did the south primarily need slaves for?
To maintain the tobocco and/or cotton economy
Why did Lincoln have to keep border states happy?
He feared that if he advocated emancipation he would provoke those states into joining the Confederacy, making the war even more difficult to win.
Why was the North better fit to win the war against the South? (List at least two advantages)
They had an enourmous industrial advantage, superior navy, more central government, and didn't have to deal with possibilty of slave revolt.
What is sharecropping?
a system in which the landlord allows the tenant to use the land in exchange for a share of the crop (usually with very high interest rates)
What was the cause of bleeding Kansas?
Debate over the legality of slaves in Kansas
What are Border States?
states that still had slavery but stayed in the union
Why did the South have to fight a war of attrition?
Because they didn't have a railroad system or economy that could rival the north.
This government agency provided assistance to formerly enslaved people and poor whites in the Southern States and the District of Colombia.
Freedmen's Bureau
Why did Lincoln's presidency instigate the Civil War?
The south felt threatened about his views on slavery.
During Lincoln's presidency, he pushed for the __ ______ out of fear that emancipation could be undone.
13th amendment
War begins after Confederates fire on ___ ___ ____.
Union Fort Sumter
The period in time in which the southern states had to raitfy the 14th amendment in order to join the union
Radical Reconstruction