Leading to Civil War
This was the central cause of the American Civil War
Slavery
Noisiest class in US History
4B
What battle marked the start of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
Who was leader of the Confederate Army?
General Robert E. Lee
Elected President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
This was a hate group that formed during Reconstruction that inflicted terror on African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
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Stephen Douglas’s idea for states to determine whether slavery would be allowed in new states
Kansas Nebraska Act
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Battle between ironclad ships which significantly changed naval warfare
Battle of Hampton Roads
First African American regiment
54th Massachusetts
Commanding General of the Union Army
Ulysses S. Grant
Temporary agency which sets up schools, housing, and provides legal representation for former slaves
Freedman’s Bureau
Admittance of Confederate states back into the Union
Reconstruction
Federal arsenal where John Brown attacks to arm slaves
Harper’s Ferry
Depicted the life of a slave and brought the evils of slavery to the attention of many Americans who were once neutral
Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Document that declares slaves in Confederacy free
Emancipation Proclamation
Site where Robert E Lee surrendered to Ulysses S Grant, ending the Civil War.
Appomattox Courthouse
Turning point in the war
The Battle at Gettysburg
Restrictions on the freedoms and rights of former slaves
black codes
Change in leadership that effected the implementation of reconstruction.
Lincoln’s Assassination
Demanded all citizens to return runaway slaves who escaped from one state into another
Fugitive Slave Act
The idea of certain states caring more about loyalty to their specific region rather than the nation
Sectionalism
This Union victory was the bloodiest DAY in U.S. history, and it prevented European support of the Confederacy
The Battle of Antietam
Creator of the Emancipation Proclamation and Commander in Chief of the Union.
Abraham Lincoln
the right to voted based on the fact that your grandfather voted in the last election
Grandfather Clause
Military monitoring of the South and lack of southern representation in government was issued by __________
Radical Republicans
The Freedmens Bureau was successful in (2 things)
Establishing schools, and providing food and resources for newly freed blacks.
The election of 1860 led to the formation of the Confederate States of America, which was called______
Secession
The concept of States’ Rights and the idea that states can determine whether federal law applies to them
Nullification
The Union used this strategic plan to block trade, cutting off resources, and dividing the confederacy
The Anaconda Plan
The use of total war to devastate the Confederacy
Sherman’s March
What did the 13th Amendment State?
Slavery was abolished
What did the 14th Amendment state?
That every man born in the U.S. was a citizen (except Native Americans)
established military rule in the former Confederate states, divided them into five military districts, and mandated new state constitutions that guaranteed voting rights for all men, regardless of race, and required ratification of the 14th Amendment
The Military Reconstruction Acts
Allowed for California to enter the union as a free state, in turn the federal government will not pass additional laws about slavery
Compromise of 1850
Supreme Court ruling that slaves are not citizens and may not use the courts to sue for freedom
Dred Scott decision
The Confederate’s first major loss and the site of one of the most important speeches in U.S. history.
Gettysburg
Allowed for the Union to control the Mississippi River and completed the Anaconda Plan
Vicksburg
Tenant farming and economic slavery
sharecropping
The 15 Amendment did what?
What is giving African Americans the right to vote?
Provide 2 examples of a Black Code
Obey curfew, couldn't rent or own land, arrested for no job, couldn't serve on juries, could only work as servants or farmers for white families, couldn't testify in court