Who's Who
Who is the Confederate general, known for his strategic tactics?
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This invention led to the expansion of enslavement because it made the production of a certain cash crop much more profitable.
What is the Cotton gin?
This side of the war had a greater population.
What is The Union?
The region where slaves were freed by Lincoln by the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Confederacy?
A system where landowners rented their land out to farmers to farm. In return, the farmers had to pay for the land with their a large portion of the crops
What is Sharecropping?
The Confederate general surrenders to this man at the end of the war.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This is what John Brown and his followers tried to raid to start a slave rebellion. Need the official name.
What is Harpers Ferry?
Because the Union went through THIS process, they were better equipped to fight in a war.
What is industrialization?
The victory of this battle gave Lincoln the leverage to issue the Emancipation Proclamation.
What is the Battle of Antietam?
What is the government agency that helped formerly enslaved people transition from enslavement to a life of freedom, by helping to provide food, shelter, employment, etc.?
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
The Union general that used scorched-earth tactics on his March to the Sea in Georgia that led to the end of the Civil War.
Who is William Tecumseh Sherman?
This law was created as part of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. It has nothing to do with the territories Kansas or Nebraska.
What is the Fugitive Slave Law?
This was Lincoln's primary goal of the Civil War.
What is to save/preserve the Union?
This was a piece of technology that was brand new to the Civil War. (multiple possible answers)
What is Ironclad warships, repeating rifles, minie balls, photography/camera, telegraph?
This gave all people born in the US the right to citizenship.
What is the 14th Amendment?
This person 's act of violence is the reason why Vice President Andrew Johnson becomes president.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
These TWO territories were added due to the Compromise of 1850... Whether they became free or slave states will be determined by popular sovereignty.
What are Utah & New Mexico?
What are Kentucky, Maryland, Delaware, Missouri and West Virginia?
This was the name for the offensive military strategy for the Union to blockade the South.
What is The Anaconda Plan?
This law was created in southern states to allow white citizens to circumvent (get around) the literacy test and poll tax if their ancestors had the right to vote before the Civil War.
What is the Grandfather Clause?
He is the President of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
As an outcome of the Dred Scott case, the Supreme Court Justice ruled that Scott was still a slave, that he was not a citizen nor can he sue, and that Congress cannot DO THIS.
What is make a law limiting slavery?
Because the people in the Union were more indifferent to their cause for fighting for most of the war, Abraham Lincoln had to issue THIS.
What is the Draft? (or Conscription or Compulsory service)
This battle was the last time Robert E. Lee would try to invade the Union because the Confederacy suffered very heavy casualties.
What is the Battle of Gettysburg?
This presidential order removed the US troops that were in the South keeping order & enforcing racial equality. It also had Democrats "promise" to respect African American rights.
What is The Compromise of 1877?