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What amendment abolished slavery?

13th amendment

What were the major causes of the Civil War?

Slavery, states rights' and sectionalism

What amendment provides the basis for states' rights?

10th amendment

How did California become a state?

With the Compromise of 1850

In what speech did Lincoln state that his job as president was to preserve the union and that he had no desire to interfere with slavery where it already existed?

Lincoln's First Inaugural Address

What is a carpetbagger?

A Northerner who moved South after the Civil War to take advantage of the conditions in the South

What was the Freedmen's Bureau?

An organization that was created to hep newly freed slaves by setting up schools and providing food

What was the reconstruction plan that asked for severely punishing the South?

Radical Reconstruction

Who was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress and represented Mississippi during Reconstruction?

Hiram Rhodes Revels

Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who also was a spy for the Union army?

Harriet Tubman

What was the Ten Percent Plan?

Lincoln's plan that allowed a southern state to form new government after 10 percent of the voters swore an oath of allegiance to the United States

What are abolitionists?

People who want to end slavery

What laws were passed after the Civil War with the purpose of restricting African-Americans freedom?

Black Codes

What Lincoln speech emphasized that a "government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth"?

Gettysburg Address

What were some of the economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy prior to the Civil War?

Union-industrial economy, favored tariffs Confederacy-agricultural economy, opposed tariffs

What is the term for a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit?

Scalawag

What was the name of the system that helped slaves escape from the south to the north to freedom?

Underground Railroad

What amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?

15th amendment

Where did the Civil War end?

Appomattox Courthouse

What were some of the advantages of the Confederacy during the Civil War?

military tradition, familiar with the land, European aid to the Confederacy, motivation to preserve their way of life

What were some of the advantages of the Union during the Civil War?

money, railroads, manufactured goods, bigger population and army

What order did Lincoln issue that officially freed the slaves in the rebelling states beginning January 1, 1863?

Emancipation Proclamation

William Carney and Philip Bazaar were both honored for their bravery during the Civil War and were recipients of what?

the Congressional Medal of Honor

Who is Clara Barton?

A nurse who helped injured soldiers during the Civil War and founded the Red Cross

What was the first state to secede from the Union?

South Carolina

What debates occurred prior to the Civil War in which Abraham Lincoln clearly stated his position on slavery as being anti-slavery?

Lincoln-Douglass debates

What amendment gave citizenship to African-Americans?

14th amendment

What system kept farmers indebted to land owners and led to poverty in the South after the Civil War?

Sharecropping

What was the first battle of the Civil War?

Fort Sumter

Who was the abolitionist who led the raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?

John Brown

Who is responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?

John Wilkes Boothe

"We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection." Which inaugural address is this quote from?

Second Inaugural Address

During what years was the Civil War fought?

1861-1865

What is sectionalism?

a loyalty to one's region instead of to the country as a whole

Who was the general of the Confederate Army?

Robert E. Lee

Who was the general of the Union army?

Ulysses S. Grant

Who was the president of the Confederacy?

Jefferson Davis

Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?

Abraham Lincoln

What law stated that the territories of Kansas and Nebraska would be open to slavery if it was decided by the voters of those areas?

Kansas-Nebraska Act

What does secede mean?

to formally withdraw

What event occurred when violence broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas?

Bleeding Kansas

What battle was the single bloodiest day in American History during the Civil War?

Battle of Antietam

What Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were not citizens but rather property?

Dred Scott vs. Sandford

What battle helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River?

Battle of Vicksburg

What was the name of the secret organization that developed in the South after the Civil War to prohibit African-Americans from voting?

Ku Klux Klan

In what year did Abraham Lincoln become president prompting South Carolina to secede?

1860

What law required that northern states return escaped slaves to their owners?

Fugitive Slave Act

What principle of government refers to the idea that government gets its power from the people? This was the approach that people were going to use to determine if a new state would have slavery or not.

Popular Sovereignty

What was the novel that was written which exposed the evils of slavery? Who wrote it?

Uncle Tom's Cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe

Who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic?

Julia Ward Howe

What was the three-day battle with over 50,000 casualties that was the turning point of the Civil War?

Battle of Gettysburg