Road to Civil War
Abolition & Reform
Events & Military Strategy
Reconstruction & Amendments
Court & Federal Actions
100
This state was the first to secede after Lincoln won the Election of 1860
What is South Carolina?
100
This secret network helped enslaved people escape to freedom and increased Northern support for abolition.
What is the Underground Railroad?
100
This attack in April 1861 marked the official start of the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
100
This amendment abolished slavery in the United States.
What is the 13th Amendment?
100
This 1857 Supreme Court decision ruled that blacks were not citizens.
What is Dred Scott v. Sanford?
200
This act used popular sovereignty, leading to violence known as "Bleeding Kansas".
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
200
This movement pushed for limiting alcohol consumption during the Antebellum era.
What is the Temperance Movement?
200
This Union strategy used a naval blockade to choke Southern trade and fight a war of attrition
What is the Anaconda Plan?
200
This amendment granted voting rights regardless of race or prior servitude.
What is the 15th Amendment?
200
This federal agency helped provide food, education, and support to newly freed blacks.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
300
This 1820s compromise banned slavery north of 36°30' latitude in the Louisiana Territory
What is the Missouri Compromise?
300
This movement gained attention before the Civil War, but achieved little lasting change for women's voting rights
What was the Women's Rights Movement?
300
Lincoln used this communication technology to immediately issue orders on the battlefield - a huge Northern advantage
What is the telegraph?
300
This amendment granted citizenship and equal protection under the law.
What is the 14th Amendment?
300
This part of the Dred Scott decision overturned the Missouri Compromise.
What is Congress cannot ban slavery in the territories?
400
This 1850 law required Northern citizens to assist in the return of escaped enslaved individuals.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
400
This group advocated for the rights of Black people to serve in the Union Army, influencing units such as the 54th Massachusetts.
Who were the abolitionists?
400
The Union's advantages, as seen in the chart, demonstrate this type of economic strength
What is industrial strength?
400
These laws, passed by Southern states, limited the freedoms of freemen and resisted national Reconstruction legislation.
What were Black Codes?
400
President Johnson's Reconstruction policies often did this to the freedmen's natural rights.
What is limited them?
500
This war increased sectionalism by reigniting debates about the expansion of slavery into the new western territories.
What is the Mexican-American War?
500
This cartoon expresses this viewpoint about slavery
What is that slavery was being forced on those who opposed it?
500
The Emancipation Proclamation shifted the Union war goal toward this.
What is ending slavery?
500
Congress created five military districts under this 1867 law to enforce Reconstruction.
What is the Reconstruction Act of 1867?
500
These two events pushed Congress to pass the Civil Rights Act of 1866
What are violence/Black Codes, and discrimination against blacks?