🟥 CATEGORY 1: CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
This was the primary issue that created the deepest division between the North and South.
What is slavery?
The Civil War began in this year.
What is 1861?
This attack started the Civil War.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was the process of rebuilding the South after the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
The Union refers to these states.
What is the North?
Loyalty to your region over the nation as a whole.
What is sectionalism?
The first state to secede.
What is South Carolina?
The Civil War lasted this many years.
What is 4 years?
This amendment granted citizenship rights.
What is the 14th Amendment?
A primary source is this type of evidence.
What is first-hand historical evidence?
This compromise maintained balance between free and slave states.
What is the Missouri Compromise?
This group consisted of Southern states.
What is the Confederacy?
This proclamation freed enslaved people in Confederate states.
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
This amendment ended slavery.
What is the 13th Amendment?
This film by Ken Burns is a _______ about the Civil War.
What is a documentary?
This compromise addressed slavery in new territories in 1850.
What is the Compromise of 1850?
This group consisted of Northern states.
What is the Union?
This battle was a major turning point Union victory.
What is Gettysburg?
This amendment gave Black men the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
Most Civil War soldiers were this.
What are volunteers?
This act led to violence over slavery voting decisions in Kansas and Nebraska.
What is the Kansas-Nebraska Act?
The Confederacy’s main goal was this.
What is leaving the Union or Preserving Slavery?
This river was secured after the Siege of Vicksburg.
What is the Mississippi River?
These laws restricted the rights of freed people.
What are Black Codes?
This resource was crucial for transporting troops and supplies.
What are railroads?