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This is the person who was elected president in 1860 and oversaw the Civil War from the Union side.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This is the largest battle of the Civil War and the last time the South attacked in the Northern states.
What is Gettysburg?
This amendment freed the slaves... even if the South didn't like it.
What is the Thirteenth Amendment?
This allowed Missouri to become a slave state despite being above the line that divided free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This is the term for a network of stops that led slaves to freedom.
What is the Underground Railroad?
This person was the main Union general who is credited with winning the Civil War.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
This is where the Civil War began in South Carolina.
What is Ft. Sumter?
This is a general name for laws that prohibited black Americans from having equal opportunities in the South.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This infamous court case said that slavery could not be denied anywhere and slaves could never sue for their freedom because they were property.
What is the Dred Scott case?
This is the term for someone who supports government policy to promote manufacturing.
What is an industrialist?
This is the Confederate commander who surrendered at the end of the Civil War.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
This is where the final recognized battle of the Civil War took place.
What is Appomattox Courthouse?
This is the type of job that many former slaves in the South took on. They usually ended in debt and had to purchase land from their previous owners.
What is a sharecropping?
This officially ended the Missouri Compromise because two states that should have been in the North got to choose whether they would be slave or free states.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
If you support the South, you are known as this.
This is the name of the president of the Confederacy.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
This is a major turning point in the war because Southern general "Stonewall" Jackson was shot by his own men. It was even a Confederate victory.
What is Chancellorsville?
This was set up to assist recently freed slaves and other people in poverty in the South.
What is the Freedman's Bureau?
These were two major revolts that scared Southerners. One was led by an educated slave and the other by a religious white man.
What are Nat Turner's Rebellion and John Brown's Raid?
This court case made sure that facilities could be separate but they had to be "equal."
What is Plessy v Ferguson?
This Union general used total warfare on his "March to the Sea" that left a psychological blow to the South.
Who is William T. Sherman?
This battle was a Northern victory. After capturing a fort and starving out their people, the South surrendered the Mississippi River.
What is Vicksburg?
This is the event that officially ended reconstruction in the South. The ACTUAL name of the action...
What is the Compromise of 1877?
California is a free state.
All the other new territories gained from Mexico will choose what they want to be.
Washington DC ends the slave trade
Fugitive Slave Act is in effect.
This famous speech was given to unify the North after a great victory by Abraham Lincoln. It is also the cite of the first national cemetery.
What is the Gettysburg Address?