Important Places of the Civil War
People of the Civil War
Pre-Civil War: Miscellaneous
Reconstruction Era Terms
Figures and Symbols of the Reconstruction Era
100

This first major land battle that proved that the war was going to be long and costly

What is Battle of Bull Run

100

He was President of the United States during the Civil War and issued the Emancipation Proclamation

Who is Abraham Lincoln

100

This compromise admitted Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state while drawing a line across the Louisiana Territory.

What is the Missouri Compromise

100

This constitutional amendment granted citizenship to all people born in the United States.

What is the 14th Amendment

100

This group of congressmen who believed Lincoln was being too easy on the South, and demanded freedmen have the right to vote

What is Radical Republicans

200
The turning point of the Civil War took place at
What is Gettysburg Pennsylvania
200

This Union general later became president after leading the North to victory

Who is Ulysses S. Grant

200

Who invented the cotton gin that created a huge increase in the demand for cotton, resulting in a slavery boom?

Who is Eli Whitley?

200

Define Reconstruction

What is the rebuilding of the South after the Civil War

200
He became the President after Abraham Lincoln was assassinated
What is Andrew Johnson
300

The first shots of the Civil War were fired where

What is Fort Sumter

300

This person wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin, exposing the horrors of slavery.

Who is Harriet Beecher Stowe

300

This 1857 Supreme Court case ruled that African Americans were not citizens and had no right to sue in federal court

What is Dred Scott v. Sandford

300
Define Freedman's Bureau
What is the United States government agency that helped freedmen and poor southern whites by providing them food, shelter, education, clothing, medicine, etc.
300

This secret group used violence and intimidation to oppose Reconstruction and African American rights.

What is the Ku Klux Klan

400
This was General Lee's first invasion of the north
What is Antietam
400

This Confederate general was known as “Stonewall” for his steadfast defense at First Bull Run

Who is Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson

400

This law required citizens to help capture escaped enslaved people, even in free states, and was also known as the Bloodhound Bill

What is Fugitive Slave Act

400
Define Black Codes
What is Southern laws to limit the right of freedmen. Stopped blacks from gaining political, social, and economic power
400

Two of the Radical Republicans who sponsored a bill in response to Lincoln's 10% Plan.

Who are Senator Benjamin Wade and Representative Henry Winter Davis

500

General Lee surrendered here which ultimately ended the Civil War

What is the Appomattox Courthouse

500

This abolitionist led a raid on Harpers Ferry in 1859 hoping to spark a slave uprising

Who is John Brown

500
The document that was issued by President Lincoln that stated all slaves in the rebelling states were to be set free was known as the..
What is Emancipation Proclamation
500

This system trapped many freedmen in a cycle of debt by farming land they did not own

What is sharecropping

500

This fictional figure often depicted as a person enforcing racial separation, gave his name to the system that defined the post-Reconstruction South

Who is Jim Crow

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