CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR
What term describes growing tensions between regions due to economic differences?
Sectionalism
Which region's economy relied on factories, textile mills, and immigrant labor?
Northern Economy
What war was fought from 1861–1865 between North and South?
Civil War
What period followed the Civil War when the South was divided into military districts?
Reconstruction
Which amendment abolished slavery?
13th Amendment
What major issue caused the most debate before the Civil War?
Slavery
Which region's economy relied on plantations and slave labor?
Southern Economy
Where did the Confederacy officially surrender?
Appomattox Court House
What group in Congress wanted to punish Confederate leaders?
Radical Republicans
Which amendment granted citizenship and equal protection?
14th Amendment
What law allowed settlers in Kansas to vote on slavery?
Kansas-Nebraska Act
What advantages helped the North win the Civil War?
Union advantages
What economic system difference contributed to sectionalism?
Northern Economy vs Southern Economy
What organization helped freed slaves with food, jobs, and education?
Freedmen’s Bureau
Which amendment gave African American men the right to vote?
15th Amendment
What agreement admitted California as a free state but passed a strict fugitive slave law?
Compromise of 1850
Who was the U.S. president during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
What was a major Union advantage over the Confederacy?
More factories, railroads, and money
What farming system often trapped freedmen in debt?
Sharecropping
What laws limited the freedoms of former slaves?
Black Codes
What alliance was formed by Southern states after seceding from the Union?
Confederacy
What was Lincoln’s main goal at the start of the war?
Preserve the Union
What was the central issue of the Civil War besides states’ rights?
Slavery
What word means a pardon for a crime?
Amnesty
What system legally separated people by race?
Segregation