Civil War Key Terms and People

<p>It ended all Confederate advances into the North. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>South Carolina (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To initiate an armed revolt against slavery. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A more extensive network of railroads. (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>It involved violent conflicts over the state's status on slavery. (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>To demoralize the Confederacy (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>13th Amendment (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>10% of a state's eligible voters must swear allegiance to the Union (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Radical Republicans (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Withdrawal of Union troops from the South (D)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Education and family reunification services (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>A cycle of debt and dependency (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Surrender at Appomattox Court House (C)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Restrict the civil rights of black Americans (B)</p> Signup and view all the answers

<p>Radical Republicans sought to punish the South more harshly than Johnson. (A)</p> Signup and view all the answers

Union General Sherman's destructive campaign through Georgia, targeting Southern infrastructure and demoralizing the Confederacy.

The site of Confederate General Lee's surrender to Union General Grant, marking the end of the Civil War in April 1865.

Short-term causes included the election of Lincoln, Southern secession, and the conflict in Kansas. Long-term causes were economic differences, disputes over slavery in new territories, and states' rights versus federal authority.

Decision by 11 Southern states to leave the United States, forming their own nation due to slavery tensions; a key trigger of the Civil War.

The idea that residents of territories should decide for themselves whether slavery is permitted.

Violent conflict in Kansas as pro- and anti-slavery settlers clashed over its status as a free or slave state.

Three main plans to govern the South after the Civil War: Lincoln's 10% plan, Johnson's plan, and the Radical Republican plan, each with varying levels of leniency and rights for former slaves.

Reconstruction plan focusing on lenient readmission of Confederate states, pardons for Confederate leaders, and civil rights for former slaves but left to the states.

Reconstruction plan focusing on punishing the South, disenfranchising Confederate leaders, granting voting rights for black men, and guaranteeing civil rights for former slaves.

Former slaves rent land, tools, and housing from white landowners, sharing crop profits with them, often resulting in lifelong debt and poverty.

A series of agreements intended to ease tensions between North and South over slavery. It admitted California as a free state, strengthened the Fugitive Slave Act, and abolished the slave trade in D.C.

Part of the Compromise of 1850, this law required people in the North to help capture and return runaway slaves to their owners in the South.

This law allowed for popular sovereignty (voting) on slavery in the newly formed territories of Kansas and Nebraska, leading to violence between pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions in Kansas.

A Supreme Court case that ruled that enslaved people were not considered citizens and had no right to sue in federal court. It also declared the Missouri Compromise unconstitutional, leading to increased tensions over slavery.

The election that led to the secession of Southern states. Abraham Lincoln, a Republican opposed to the expansion of slavery, was elected president, triggering the Civil War.

A presidential proclamation issued by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 declaring that enslaved people in Confederate states would be freed. It aimed to weaken the Confederacy and strengthen the fight against slavery.

A powerful speech given by Abraham Lincoln during the dedication of a cemetery for Union soldiers at Gettysburg. It emphasizes the nation's commitment to freedom and equality, linking it to the Declaration of Independence.

States that were slave states but remained loyal to the Union during the Civil War. Their neutrality was crucial to the outcome of the war.