Sectionalism
The line that separates the free states from enslaved states.
What is 36'30' line?
Freed the slave in Confederate States, allowed African Americans to join the Union military
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
President of the Union, was assassinated
Abraham Lincoln
FCV
What is Free, Citizens, Vote?
Former Union General and President of the United States
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Compromise that introduces Maine as a free state and Missouri a slave state, despite it being above the 36'30' line.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
Lee surrendered to Grant at this location
What is Appomattox Courthouse, VA?
Union General, later a President
Ulysses S. Grant
How did Southerners violate the 15th amendment?
What are poll taxes, literacy tests, and grandfather clauses?
First President to be impeached
Andrew Johnson
Compromise that brings California as a free state and bans all slave trade in Washington D.C.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
The turning point of the Civil War that took place in Pennsylvania
What is the Battle Of Gettysburg
General who lost at the Battle of Gettysburg and surrendered to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse
Who is Robert E. Lee?
Laws that violated African American rights in the south, example was separate but equal
What are black codes?
Groups of Congressmen who wanted to protect African American rights and sent military to the South to enforce laws
Radical Republicans
An act that allowed for slaves or freedmen to be returned to the south to an owner.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This battle victory allowed the Union to cut of supply lines and control the Mississippi River.
What is Battle of Vicksburg?
What was Abraham Lincoln's main goal at the beginning of the Civil War?
What is preserve the Union?
What effect did sharecropping have on poor whites and African Americans?
Left them in debt, and was like being a slave again
Hiram Rhodes Revels
He sued for his freedom, however was told slaves are property not citizens. Who am I?
Who is Dred Scott?
what were two advantages the Union had over the Confederacy during the Civil War?
railroads, population, manufacturing, better leadership
Confederate President who wanted to keep slavery legal in all the states
Jefferson Davis
Organization created by the Radical Republicans to protect African American rights and provide help to them in the South
What is Freedmen's Bureau?
Group of Northerners who came to the South for economic and political gain.
Who are the carpetbaggers?