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He wanted to gain weapons to give slaves so they could fight for their freedom.
Who is John Brown?
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book about the cruelty of slavery.
What is Uncle Tom’s Cabin?
This was the main cause of the Civil War?
What is slavery?
This was a practice of putting a region’s needs above the nation’s.
What is sectionalism?
The South wanted these to ensure stronger state governments.
What are states’ rights?
The war began here.
What is Fort Sumter?
This was a major Confederate city and a hub for railroads.
What is Atlanta?
Sherman’s March to the Sea was to capture this Confederate port city.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
Appomattox Court House is where this event took place.
What is the surrender of General Lee?
This was the site of one of the bloodiest Civil War battles?
What is Gettysburg, Pennsylvania?
This president’s election caused the Southern states to secede.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This Confederate leader earned his nickname when he showed up to Bull Run with reinforcements.
Who is Thomas “Stonewall” Jackson?
The leader of the Confederate army.
Who is Robert E. Lee?
He became president of the Confederate States of America.
Who is Jefferson Davis?
Ulysses S. Grant was the leader of this army.
What is the Union Army?
Federal troops were sent to this region to ensure that the new laws were followed.
What is the South?
This replaced slavery on large plantations.
What is sharecropping?
This economy was boosted by producing goods during the war.
What is the North?
The period of rebuilding the South was called this.
What is Reconstruction?
This was the greatest change for the South.
What is the abolishment of slavery?
Separate but equal was the meaning of these.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
The 13 th amendment did this.
What is outlawed slavery?
This amendment gave blacks the right to vote.
What is the 15 th amendment?
This federal agency provided aid for needy Southerners, especially former slaves, after the war.
What is the Freedmen’s Bureau?
The 14 th amendment did this.
What is made blacks citizens of the U.S.?
Make your wager
These are the two main ways that the Southern states were allowed to rejoin the Union.
What are pledge loyalty to the Union and ratify the new amendments?