Unit 4: Civil War U.S. A

How to readmit the South, rebuilding its economy, and giving rights to former slaves were all issues of Reconstruction

The last time the South went on the offensive?

1st Deadly Battle of the war, worse than thought

Who became the commander of all Union armies in 1864?

Assassinated Lincoln

John Brown's raid at Harper's Ferry was meant to take the weapons and free slaves

Union General in the East for most of the war

People who believed slavery was morally wrong and wanted to end it were called...

Which region of the country got super rich off of cotton?

Became President after Lincoln

Freed the slaves officially

The Confederacy’s main reasons to enter the Civil war was due to state's rights and slavery

President of the Confederate States of America

The battle that officially started the Civil War

Required citizens in the North to send any escaped slaves back to the South

Granted African American citizenship and equal protection under the law

Poll taxes, literacy rates, grandfather clauses, and violence were all used against this group to stop them from voting?

What court case decided that segregation was legal as long as facilities for blacks were "separate but equal"?

At the beginning of the Civil War, the U.S. government was fighting to keep the Union together.

Laws passed in the South to limit right of African Americans were called Black Codes.

What do we call the violent conflict over the issue of slavery in Kansas?

At the beginning of Reconstruction African American political participation increased.

The name of the program to fix the South and bring them back to the Union was called Constitution

Which court case said slaves were property, not people?

The turning point in the Civil War for the North

The North spread terror throughout the South during Reconstruction

Kept slave/free states balanced, new land, and failed compromises were all issues of

Deadliest one-day battle in all of U.S. history

Capture of this place allowed the Union access to the Mississippi River.

This entered California as a free state, allowed slavery in D.C., and did the Fugitive Slave Act

Why did Reconstruction end?

Allowed all MEN to vote

General who did the March to the Sea and burnt the South

Confederate General who surrendered at Appomattox

Winner of the 1860 Election

What freed the slaves in the states of rebellion?