Civil War
This is what the North was called during the Civil War.
The Union
The period right after the Civil War where the country was supposed to be brought back together.
Reconstruction
This amendment gives you freedom to
Assemble
Petition
Press
Speech
Religion
1st Amendment
What caused the Civil War?
Slavery
This famous actor assassinated President Lincoln in Ford's Theater in Washington DC
John Wilkes Booth
This method of communication was essential for the North and allowed for messages to be delivered almost instantaneously.
The telegraph
This group along with the Black Churches allowed for African Americans to go to school, become literate, and utilize newly given opportunities and freedoms.
Freedman's Bureau
This amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.
8th Amendment
This group of people in this movement includes Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, John Brown, Nat Turner and worked to end slavery.
Abolition Movement
This system existed shortly after the Civil War, where Black people were tenant farmers and had to keep working on the plantations, and it kept Black people tied to the land as a result of debt.
Sharecropping
The South thought they could leverage this with European countries to get involved and end the Civil War.
King Cotton Diplomacy
This group of people dressed all in white, terrorized Black people and repeatedly tried to take many of the newly found freedoms Black men had.
Ku Klux Klan (KKK)
This amendment abolished slavery.
13th Amendment
This act passed by Congress led to the Trail of Tears
Indian Removal Act
This general introduced the concept of total war with his march which eventually led to the end of the Civil War.
William Sherman
The President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
These laws passed mostly in the South took away many of the freedoms that were given to African Americans.
Black Codes
This amendment gave Black men the suffrage
15th Amendment
This person famously beat Abraham Lincoln in a senatorial race in 1858. He famously debated Lincoln and while Lincoln lost it allowed him to become popular in the North.
Stephen Douglass
This allowed for the freedom of slaves in the South and allowed African Americans to join the military.
Emancipation Proclamation
Lincoln was found to suspend this during the Civil War in the case of Ex Parte Merrymen, where Lincoln gave the army the power to arrest people without telling them why they were under arrest.
Habeas Corpus
The compromise of 1877 allowed for Rutherford B Hayes (A Republican to become President). In exchange Hayes did what, which managed to hurt Reconstruction.
Made federal soldiers vacate the South.
This amendment gave Black people citizenship and equal protection of the law. It famously reversed the Dred Scott decision.
14th Amendment
This battle is the first one in the Civil War, as Lincoln tried to resupply this fort which the South used as an excuse to attack and eventually force a Union surrender.
Fort Sumter
Name three advantages the Union had over the Confederacy in the Civil War.
Some answers include
Population
Industrialization
Railroad/Telegraph
etc...