Civil War

What nickname did General Thomas Jackson get after the Battle of Bull run?

The Civil war GREATLY increased the federal government's power.

What is Popular Sovereignty? (Stephen Douglas supported it in his debates with Lincoln).

which was the main cause of conflict between the north and the south?

Who took over as President after Lincoln died?

The antislavery activist John Brown was best known for

Battle in the Mississippi Valley where 1/4 of the 100,000 men were killed, wounded, or captured.

established by Congress to provide food, clothing, hospitals, legal protection, &education for former slaves/poor whites

Why is the Election of 1860 Significant?

Union nurse who went on to found the American Red Cross after the war.

The Gettysburg Address helped America realize we are not just a collection of states, but one unified nation.

The Freeport Doctrine basically established that...

Fugitive Slave Act

The Free-Soil movement...

Which amendment said all citizens are allowed to vote regardless of race, color, or previous condition of servitude?

Abe's Reconstruction plan was called the ___ - this % of the state had to swear allegiance before rejoining the union

First African American Senator

Union began shelling the city here, leaving citizens to hide in the hills until they were starving and surrendered

Which amendment granted citizenship to all people born or naturalized in the US?

The South thought they had a definite ally in France, due to their typical need of cotton.

Sharecropping is when farmers in the south lent each other crops when needed during reconstruction.

The Emancipation Proclamation freed all saves in the United States immediately.

Lincoln was in favor of a harsh Reconstruction policy to punish the southern states for seceding.

Finding info wrapped around cigars, this battle took place on a creek in Maryland - the bloodiest single day battle

Kansas - Nebraska Act of 1854

Process where charges are brought up against a public official for misconduct.

By the late 1870's, which party regained control of the south?

Uncle Tom's Cabin

Which amendment freed the slaves?

What was "Bleeding Kansas"?

President of the Confederacy

Why are the Lincoln-Douglas debates significant?

The first state to secede from the union was

The most notorious and widespread of the Southern vigilante groups was the Ku Klux Klan (KKK).

The Wilmot Proviso stated that...

Which was NOT a group that joined the new Republican party?

The Lecompton Constitution

What happened to John Brown after the raid?

Robert E. Lee was the leader of Union forces.

Lee took his army using total war and scorched everything in his path on his way to the sea to break the south.

The Lecompton Constitution proposed that the state of Kansas

Fort Sumter located in ________ was the first clash between the North and South.

Caning of Sumner

Lee Harvey Oswald shot Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theatre April 14, 1865.

Within one month of Confederate surrender at Appomattox Court house, all southern resistance collapsed.

Reconstruction was extremely effective, with its policies lasting far into the future.

Which was NOT an advantage of the North?