Who was the first African-American to serve in the U.S. Congress and represented Mississippi during Reconstruction?
Hiram Rhodes Revels
"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
Who is responsible for the assassination of Abraham Lincoln?
John Wilkes Boothe
What was the Freedmen's Bureau?
An organization that was created to hep newly freed slaves by setting up schools and providing food
What is sectionalism?
a loyalty to one's region instead of to the country as a whole
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 was the first state to secede from the Union?
South Carolina
What is a carpetbagger?
A Northerner who moved South after the Civil War to take advantage of the conditions in the South
Who is Clara Barton?
A nurse who helped injured soldiers during the Civil War and founded the Red Cross
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 were some of the advantages of the Union during the Civil War?
money, railroads, manufactured goods, bigger population and army
What battle was the single bloodiest day in American History during the Civil War?
Battle of Antietam
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
Who was the general of the Confederate Army?
Robert E. Lee
What does secede mean?
to formally withdraw
What was the three-day battle with over 50,000 casualties that was the turning point of the Civil War?
Battle of Gettysburg
What were some of the economic differences between the Union and the Confederacy prior to the Civil War?
What law required that northern states return escaped slaves to their owners?
Fugitive Slave Act
Who was the abolitionist who led the raid at Harper's Ferry, Virginia?
John Brown
In what year did Abraham Lincoln become president prompting South Carolina to secede?
1860
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 reconstruction plan that asked for severely punishing the South?
Radical Reconstruction
Who was the President of the Union during the Civil War?
Abraham Lincoln
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
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 amendment abolished slavery?
13th amendment
Who wrote the Battle Hymn of the Republic?
Julia Ward Howe
What system kept farmers indebted to land owners and led to poverty in the South after the Civil War?
Sharecropping
How did California become a state?
With the Compromise of 1850
What was the first battle of the Civil War?
Fort Sumter
What are abolitionists?
People who want to end slavery
Who was the most famous conductor of the Underground Railroad who also was a spy for the Union army?
Harriet Tubman
What amendment gave African-American men the right to vote?
15th amendment
What was the novel that was written which exposed the evils of slavery? Who wrote it?
Uncle Tom's Cabin; Harriet Beecher Stowe
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
Where did the Civil War end?
Appomattox Courthouse
During what years was the Civil War fought?
1861-1865
What Supreme Court case ruled that slaves were not citizens but rather property?
Dred Scott vs. Sandford
What amendment provides the basis for states' rights?
10th amendment
What order did Lincoln issue that officially freed the slaves in the rebelling states beginning January 1, 1863?
Emancipation Proclamation
What battle helped the Union gain control of the Mississippi River?
Battle of Vicksburg
Who was the general of the Union army?
Ulysses S. Grant
What laws were passed after the Civil War with the purpose of restricting African-Americans freedom?
Black Codes
What is the term for a white Southerner who collaborated with northern Republicans during Reconstruction, often for personal profit?
Scalawag
Who was the president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
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 was the name of the system that helped slaves escape from the south to the north to freedom?
Underground Railroad
What were the major causes of the Civil War?
Slavery, states rights' and sectionalism
What amendment gave citizenship to African-Americans?
14th amendment
What event occurred when violence broke out between pro-slavery and anti-slavery people in Kansas?
Bleeding Kansas
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
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