Causes of the Civil War
geography caused the country to develop differences; Northerners build factories, Southerners farmed, Westerners mined.
What is Sectionalism
This side of the Civil War had a large industrial/factory system, large population, better railroad system, free labor system, and more weapons
What is the Union
Laws that limited the new freedom of African Americans
What are black codes
Who was the President of the United States during the Civil War
Abraham Lincoln
This event started the Civil War
What is the Battle of Fort Sumter
What is the Fugitive Slave Act
This "country" had a plantation system, slave labor, limited industrial capabilities, and fought the United
States government after seceding in 1861
What is the Confederate States of America
This amendment allowed African American males the right to vote
Robert E Lee
Confederacy surrenders to Union ending the Civil War, located in Virginia
What is Appomattox Court House
Agreement that attempted to solve slavery issue through popular sovereignty, this led to Bleeding Kansas
What is the Kansas Nebraska Act
This battle was...
-located in Pennsylvania
-the deadliest battle in American history
-the turning point of the Civil War
What is the Battle of Gettysburg
This amendment granted citizenship to African Americans, all Americans were to be treated equally under the law
What is the 14th Amendment
This amendment ended slavery in the United States
What is the 13th Amendment
ruled slaves were property and not citizens
What is Dred Scott v Sandford
The result of this battle was the union gained control of the Mississippi river which divided the Confederacy in half
What is the Battle of Vicksburg
This group worked to help freedmen. They provided
1) education
2) clothing/food
3) Jobs
What is the Freedmen's Bureau
Main/most success Union General during the Civil War
What is Ulysses S. Grant
Lincoln freed the slaves in the Confederacy as a wartime measure
Emancipation Proclamation
North and South agree to add California as a free state but a strict Fugitive Slave law is passed
What is the Compromise of 1850
This battle was important because it was the deadliest single day in American history
What is the Battle of Antietam
This group took control after Lincoln's death, they wanted to punish Confederate leaders and southerners for the Civil War
What is Radical Republicans
1st African American U.S. Senator
What is Hiram Rhodes Revels
After the Civil War the process of Southern states being brought back into the Union
What is Reconstruction