1. What did the Missouri Compromise say?

2. Maine would become a FREE state, and Missouri would become a SLAVE state

3. Define Popular Sovereignty

4. The people make the decisions

5. Who decided whether slavery would be allowed in Kansas & Nebraska?

6. The people!! (Popular Sovereignty)

7. What were the 4 main causes of the Civil War? Slavery Sectionalism State’s Rights Secession

8. What event pushed the Southern Cottonacracy to make the decision to secede from the Union? Lincoln’s Election in 1860

9. Put these in order: Battle of Gettysburg Attack on Ft. Sumter Emancipation Proclamation Surrender at Appomattox

10. Put these in order: Battle of Gettysburg 1863 Attack on Ft. Sumter 1861 Emancipation Proclamation 1863 Surrender at Appomattox 1865

11. What advantages did the NORTH have to win the war? Navy More Money Factories More people More farmland

12. What advantages did the SOUTH have? More volunteers Knowledge of the land Strong Military Leaders

13. Where did the Civil War start? Ft. Sumter 1861

14. What was the first major battle of the Civil War? Bull Run

15. Who was the president of the Confederacy? Jefferson Davis

16. Who was the president of the Union? Abraham Lincoln

17. Who was the leading General of the Union? General Grant

18. Who was the leading General of the Confederacy? General Lee

19. What were the Union’s strategies to win the war? Blockade Southern ports Take over Richmond Control the Mississippi River

20. What were the Confederacy’s strategies to win the war? Play defense! Trade with Europe

21. What was the turning point of the Civil War? The Battle of Gettysburg

22. What was the name of Lincoln’s speech that “freed” the slaves? Emancipation Proclamation

23. How did the Emancipation Proclamation help the Union win the war? It gave them more support from southern slaves, Europe, and it motivated more Northerners to volunteer to fight.

24. What was the importance of the Gettysburg Address? Lincoln declared that the soldiers did not die in vain.

25. Where did the Confederacy surrender to the Union? Appomattox Courthouse

26. What is the time period after the Civil War called? Reconstruction

27. What gave the slaves their freedom? 13 th Amendment

28. What were the freed slaves called? freedmen

29. What gave the freedmen the right to vote? 15 th Amendment

30. What did the 14 th Amendment say? It gave the freedmen citizenship.

31. What job did most freemen end up taking during Reconstruction? Sharecropper

32. What prevented freedmen from voting? 1. Poll Tax 2. Literacy Test 3. Grandfather Clause

33. What did Plessy v. Ferguson say? Separate But Equal

34. What word means “to separate people by their color” segregation

35. What laws said it was legal to SEGREGATE people by race? Jim Crow Laws

36. What was the name of Lincoln’s Reconstruction Plan? 10% Plan

37. What group of Congressman worked to give freedman more rights? Radical Republicans

38. What did the Radical Republicans end up doing to Pres. Andrew Johnson? They impeached him!

39. What did the carpetbaggers do that made Southerners so angry? They moved south and bought property and businesses.