USHC Standard 3

One of the bloodiest battles, a major turning point for the Union against the Confederacy

US journalist who is a prominent abolitionist, and published the Liberator

Special Laws passed by Southern states to control former slaves immediately after the Civil War

Union Strategy to complete a naval blockade of the Confederacy to prevent export of Cotton

Private university in Alabama to help free slaves receive an education, founded by Booker

This is the Fort that the 54th Regiment gallantly stormed

Created the idea of the popular sovereignty to determine the legality of slavery in a territory

This battle split the Confederacy in half, giving the Union control of the Mississippi

Period used to describe pre-civil war

First all African-American Unit in US military history

These slaves states did not secede from the Union, and kept their slave after Emancipation

Believed in vocational education needed to happen first before AA could push for Civil Rights

The place where General Lee surrendered his Confederate forces to Union General Grant

Pushed for full equality and education rights for AA, created the NAACP

Reconstruction amendment that overturned Dredd Scott and gave former slaves citizenship rights

This agreement allowed California as a free states, and created the Fugitive Slave Act

Civil Rights pioneer who advocated for anti-lynching legislation

Decision that a slave could not sue because he was not a citizen, allows slavery in territories

Violence between pro and anti slavery factions to influence if state would become free or slave

Northern politicians who opposed Lincoln's plan, and wanted to punish the confederate states

Taking away the right to vote

Only President of the Confederate States of America

Amendment allowing the right to vote regardless of race, color, or servitude

This Compromise brought to an end of Reconstruction

This fort was located in Charleston where the first shots of the Civil War were fired

A compromise which states 1 free state and 1 free state to maintain balance in the Senate

Union General who wins the Siege at Vicksburg, and later defeats General Lee in Virginia

Work of fiction that portrayed lives of slaves in the South, motivating factor of the Civil War

This military campaign destroyed a wide path of property from Atlanta to Atlantic Ocean

A former slave leased land during reconstruction in exchange for crops and taken advantaged of

Decision saying that segregation was legal as long as it was "separate but equal"

This man lead an attempted slave revolt in Harpers Ferry, increases sectional tensions

A payment to vote to keep certain groups from voting

War strategy to destroy the confederates ability to resist

The first meeting of two iron clad ships

An Act that mandated the return of runaway slaves, many free slaves were kidnapped

Which statement best explains President Abraham Lincoln’s justification for the Civil War

Amendment abolishing slavery