The Civil War
What was the bloodiest one-day battle?
Antietam
A soldier who served in the armed forces is a ____________
veteran
According to the Reconstruction Act, who would not be able to vote or hold office in the south?
Whites who had held Confederate office
Who was President Lincoln's Vice President?
Andrew Johnson
The best-known African American soldiers were known as the _____________________
54th Massachusetts Volunteers
A strength of the North during the Civil War was ________________________
more factories and more workers to build weapons
sectionalism
White Southerners who supported Reconstruction governments were called the ______________
scalawags
Who assassinated President Lincoln?
John Wilkes Booth
Enslaved people in states still fighting the Union were freed by the ________________________
Emancipation Proclamation
How many years did the Civil War last?
4 years
The drafting of people for military service is _________________
conscription
The former Confederate states were allowed to rejoin the Union as a result of what
Reconstruction
Who was chosen to be president of the Confederacy?
Jefferson Davis
What was the first big battle of the war, which took place in July 1861?
Battle of Bull Run
The civil war began with ____ _________ ____ ______ _________
the firing on fort Sumter
Southern lawmakers made African Americans pay a ________ to vote
poll tax
The Freedmen's Bureau helped African Americans to get an _______________
education
Who wrote a book that told about the terrible conditions of slavery?
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments said that ____________________________
the federal government had more power to protect the rights of minorities, especially African Americans
The battle that was "the turning point" of the Civil War was _______________________
Gettysburg
Southerners called a Northerner who came to the South a ____________________
carpetbagger
When was the Thirteenth Amendment passed?
1865
A famous abolitionist was _______________
Fredrick Douglas
What did the Civil Rights Act of 1866 give African Americans?
The same legal rights as white Americans