Civil War Quiz - 5th Grade

____ means to break away from, as the Southern states broke away from the United Sates in 1861.

War between people of the same country is called a ________________________.

______________ was the author of the book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.

This Supreme Court case decided slaves had no rights because they were not citizens of the U.S.

A system of secret routes used by slaves that led from the South to the North or Canada.

This statement freed all slaves in Confederate states still at war with the Union.

Declared former slaves to be citizens, guaranteed equal protection of the law to all citizens

____ gave all men the right to vote, no matter their skin color or if they had been a slave.

The period of rebuilding after the Civil War in which the Southern states rejoined the Union

______provided food, clothing, medical care, and legal advice to poor blacks and whites.

_____________means to charge a government official with a crime.

A person who wanted to abolish or end slavery was called an ________________.

___ was the 16^th president of the United States.  He led the United States during the Civil War

Ratified in December 1865, the _________________ declared slavery illegal.

Poor farmers gave a share of crops to the landowner in exchange for use of a small part of land

A nickname for the laws that kept African-Americans separate from other Americans.

Famous abolitionist who escaped slavery in 1849; became a conductor of the Underground Railroad

___________________is the murder of an important leader.

The Commander of the Confederate forces in the Civil War was _________________.

He was a former slave who was a writer, editor, and leading abolitionist.