Civil War Reconstruction

Match the following terms to the correct description

• rebuild, era after the Civil War

• Secession

• Country

• Union

• to cancel or void

• Nullify

• Freedom

• Emancipation

• to leave or withdraw from a country

• Reconstruction

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Missouri Compromise (3)

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(b) Compromise of 1850 (4)

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(c) Kansas-Nebraska Act (2)

• Missouri entered Union as slave state, Maine entered as free state

• First example of allowing territories to vote on issue of slavery

• Prohibited slavery in territory north of Missouri

• Directly after the US Mexican War

• Allowed popular sovereignty in Kansas and Nebraska territories to decide issue of slavery

• Retained balance between slave and free states

• Established the Fugitive Slave Law

• California entered union as a Free state

• Violence broke out between pro and anti slavery groups "Bleeding Kansas"

Organize these events into the right categories

• Division over tariffs

• States' Rights

• Nullification Crisis

• Sectionalism

• Dred Scott v. Sandford

• Slavery

The Battle of ​ (a)   was a turning point of the ​ (b)   because the ​ (c)   gained control of the ​ (d)   River

• Mississippi
• Union
• Civil War
• Vicksburg
• Gettysburg
• American Revolution
• Confederacy
• Erie

Which region did the Emancipation Proclamation impact?

Match the amendment to its significance

• Citizen- recognized citizenship & rights

• 14th Fourteenth Amendment

• Gave women the right to vote

• 19th Nineteenth Amendment

• Free- this amendment abolished slavery

• 15th Fifteenth Amendment

• Vote- gave African American men vote

• 13th Thirteenth Amendment

Organize these options into the right categories

Groups:

(a) Positive Effects of Reconstruction

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(b) Negative Effects of Reconstruction

• Freedmans Bureau was created providing employment, education, resources

• Sharecropping replaced slavery as a legal alternative but was economically limiting

• Black Codes limited the 13th, 14th, 15th amendments in Southern states

• Reconstruction Amendments

• HBCUs, Black businesses, and churches flourished

• White terrorist groups like the KKK are formed to threaten African Americans

• Hiram Rhodes Revels elected as first Black senator

After this battle the Confederacy fought only a defensive war.

Confederate forces fired first here, which began the Civil War.

Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant here, marking the end of the Civil War.