Battles
This battle, the first battle of the war, took place between inexperienced troops and resulted in a Confederate victory.
Bull Run
In which area did the South have an advantage over the North in the Civil War?
Military leadership
The process of using prisoners for private business
convict leasing
The formal withdrawal of a state from the Union is known as:
Secession
Abraham Lincoln ran under what political party
Republican
This battle was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history.
Antietam
One effect of the Emancipation Proclamation was that it ___.
Gave a moral purpose to fight the war.
Which of the following wanted to punish the Confederate states during Reconstruction?
Radical Republicans
This individual devoted his life to the radical use of violence to eradicate slavery in America. He played an instrumental role in "Bleeding Kansas"
The candidate most strongly supported in southern slave states was?
John Breckenridge
The war began here when President Lincoln decided to send in “food for hungry men.”
Fort Sumter
When the Civil War began, what was Abraham Lincoln's main goal?
To restore the Union
African Americans were provided with food, clothes and education during Reconstruction by the:
Freedmen's Bureau
There were four main causes of the Civil War. The issue of slavery and states rights were two of them. What were the other two?
This candidate did not want slavery to extend and he opposed popular sovereignty in the territories
Abraham Lincoln
The turning point in the war. Here is where the North began to gain the upper hand.
Battle of Gettysburg
Which of the following freed slaves during the Civil War from states in rebellion (Confederacy)
Emancipation Proclamation
Northerners who moved South during Reconstruction were known as:
Carpetbaggers
Agriculture
John Bell won support in which region of the US?
Middle states
Robert E. Lee surrendered his troops to Ulysses Grant here.
Appomattox
Which was the first state to secede?
South Carolina
The job opportunity given to freedmen in which they were paid in housing and food for performing the same work they did as slaves
Sharecropping
What individual was the poster child for the statement, “all men are created equal, except negroes”?
Dred Scott
How did Stephen Douglas feel on the issues of slavery and popular sovereignty?
He opposed slavery and supported popular sovereignty