Causes
The reason(s) that the North is primarily industry and the South is primarily agriculture
Differences in climate and geography
This battle is the first battle of the Civil War
Fort Sumter
This man's role was to be the President of the Confederacy
Jefferson Davis
The amendment that gave voting rights to African Americans
15th Amendment
Define 'secession'
To break apart or leave
The novel 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' impacted the North by...
Increasing support for the Abolition Movement
This battle is known as the 'turning point'
Battle of Gettysburg
The name of the man that became President after Lincoln was assassinated
Andrew Johnson
The process that occurred due to plantation owners needing laborers and freedmen needing to make money
Sharecropping
How tariffs impacted the North vs. the South
Benefitted the North's economy but harmed the South's economy
Define 'sectionalism'
Feeling more loyal to your state than the entire country
This battle is known for being the 'bloodiest single-day battle' in American history
Battle of Antietam
Describe the role of Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War
Union general who defeated Confederate troops at the Battle of Vicksburg
List two ways the South attempted to limit the rights of freedmen
Voting restrictions, poll tax, Black Codes, literacy tests, grandfather clause
The three-word phrase used to remember the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
Free Citizens Vote
The reason why Southern states promoted 'state's rights'
To protect, enforce, and maintain slavery
What the Union gained as a result of the Battle of Vicksburg
Control of the Mississippi River and half the Confederate states
Describe the role of Hiram Rhodes Revel during Reconstruction
First African-American to serve in the United States Congress
Describe the purpose of the Freedmen's Bureau
To provide freedmen with public education, clothing, somewhere to live, and somewhere to work
The Compromise of 1850 impacted Westward Expansion by...
Determined the balance between free states and slave states when a new state was added to the Union
The immediate result of Abraham Lincoln's election to the presidency in 1860
South Carolina seceded from the Union
The name of the final event of the Civil War (2 possible answers)
The Surrender at Appomattox Courthouse or the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Describe Abraham Lincoln's view of slavery at the start of the war
He does not want to eliminate it where it currently exists, but does not want it to expand
The reconstruction plan that implemented a Civil Rights Act and dividing the South into military districts
Radical Republicans/Reconstruction
Describe Abraham Lincoln's view of slavery at the end of the war
He wants to eliminate it completely because all everyone was created equal