This prohibited the states from discriminating against voters on the basis of race and, most importantly, gave the federal government power to supersede the state courts and prosecute of the law.

The First Battle of Bull Run dealt a severe blow to the Union morale and eliminated the hopes that the war would be quick and swift.

The assassination of President Abraham Lincoln _______________________________.

The United States Sanitary Commission __________________.  

At this conference held in February of 1945, the Big Three established guidelines for occupying Germany and forming democratic governments in nations liberated from Nazi control.

Only a very small minority of southern whites owned slaves.  Most white southerners were yeoman farmers, meaning they farmed their own small plots of land usually without the assistance of slaves.

The term blitzkrieg refers to Hitler’s tactic of striking a country with massive air, tank, and artillery attack.

Antebellum is a term that refers to a time in American history before the Civil War.

What county in Alabama believed if a state could secede from the Union, then a county could secede from the state?  …and so, it did secede from the state of Alabama.  It was known as the Free State of ___________.

In the winter of 1942-1943 the Red Army had successfully held off a major Germany assault.  Hitler’s inability to take this city ended his eastern offensive.