Causes of Civil War
_____________ won the Election of 1860 and Southerners were worried that he would abolish slavery.
Abraham Lincoln
Who won the Civil War?
The Union (North)
What did the 13th Amendment do?
Abolished slavery
According to this law, American settlers were given 160 acres of land out West if they developed it for over 5 years.
Homestead Act
What was the first Southern state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
This radical abolitionist attempted to start an armed slave revolt in Virginia.
Name at least 2 advantages that the Union had over the Confederacy
More railroads, factories, higher population, better weapons, better leaders
Name one way that Southern law-makers prevent African Americans from voting.
Literacy tests, poll taxes, grandfather clauses, fear from KKK
The ________________ was funded by the U.S. government and built to link the eastern U.S. to the west.
Transcontinental Railroad
According to the Missouri Compromise, Missouri would be added to the country as a slave state and _________ would be added as a free state to keep the balance even.
Maine
This fictional book, written by Harriet Beecher Stowe, brought more negative attention to slavery and strengthened the abolitionist movement.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
Lincoln issued the ______________________ which freed slaves in the states that were rebelling and refocused the war on ending slavery.
Emancipation Proclamation
What was legalized under the ruling of Plessy vs. Ferguson?
assimilation
What did the 14th Amendment grant African Americans?
Citizenship
According to this law, Southern slave owners could go to the North and re-capture escaped slaves.
Fugitive Slave Law
What was the name of the Southern states that seceded from the Union?
Confederacy
Explain how sharecropping works.
A person rents land from a landowner and has to share a portion of their crops for payment.
This law banned Chinese immigration.
Chinese Exclusion Act
These politicians wished to punish the Confederate states and support the new rights of African Americans.
Radical Republicans
Dred Scott
What was the name of the famous speech given by Lincoln that reminded Americans about the principles of our country and why we were fighting the war.
Gettysburg Address
What is the name of the organization that was created after the Civil War to provide healthcare, education, food, and jobs to newly-freed slaves?
Freedmen's Bureau
According to this law, Native Americans were forced to give up their tribal land and adopt "American" culture such as farming, Christianity, English language, and clothing.
Dawes Act
Western states such as Kansas and Nebraska were given the right to vote on slavery. This is known as _____________________.
popular sovereignty