🟥 CATEGORY 1: CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
This idea lets people vote to decide whether slavery is allowed.
What is popular sovereignty?
This was a major advantage of the North.
What are factories and industry?
The war ended here when Lee surrendered.
What is Appomattox Court House?
This system forced freedmen into debt-based farming.
What is sharecropping?
The Southern economy relied heavily on this crop.
What is cotton?
This court case ruled African Americans were not U.S. citizens.
What is the Dred Scott decision?
This was a major advantage of the South.
What is experienced military leadership?
This Union general defeated Robert E. Lee.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
Reconstruction ended in this year.
What is 1877?
The Northern economy relied heavily on this.
What is industry?
This president opposed the expansion of slavery.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
The Civil War was fought in this country.
What is the United States?
The Confederacy surrendered in this year.
What is 1865?
This group supported strict control of the South.
Who are Radical Republicans?
This concept describes differences in economy, culture, and politics between North and South.
What is sectionalism?
This election result led to Southern secession.
What is the Election of 1860?
This president led the United States during the Civil War.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This battle marked the Confederacy’s last major attempt to invade the North.
What is Gettysburg?
These were federal agencies created to help formerly enslaved people.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
This economic system in the South depended heavily on enslaved labor.
What is the plantation system?
This term means leaving the Union.
What is secession?
This president led the South during the Civil War.
Jefferson Davis
This strategy involved cutting the South in half by controlling major rivers and rail lines.
What is the Anaconda Plan?
This term refers to laws that enforced racial segregation after Reconstruction.
What are Jim Crow laws?
This term describes the movement of people from rural farms to cities during the 1800s.
What is urbanization?