To weaken the South, the Union planned to win control of the Mississippi River and do this to southern ports, thus cutting off all trade with Europe
What is blockade.
100
This battle was a key victory for the Union because it gave the Union control of the Mississippi River, a main goal for the North.
What is the Battle of Vicksburg?
100
Reconstruction is the term given to the time period following this major historical time period.
What is the Civil War?
100
The end of this time period changed the lives of many African Americans because they lost many of the rights they had gained during the Civil War.
What is Reconstruction?
100
One likely reason the Union was victorious in the Civil War was because of this effective general.
Who is Ulysses S. Grant?
200
The Battle of Antietam had more of these in one day than any other day of the entire war.
What are casualties?
200
This word, meaning a short speech, can also refer to a person's residence.
What is an addess?
200
Laws limiting the rights of formerly enslaved people were given this term.
What are the black codes?
200
Formerly enslaved people benefitted from an education as a result of the creation of this group.
What is the Freedmen's Bureau?
200
This actor and Confederate supporter shot Abraham Lincoln in Ford's Theatre.
Who is John Wilkes Booth?
300
This document, signed January 1, 1863, stated all enslaved people in areas fighting against the Union would be "forever free."
What is the Emancipation Proclamation?
300
The Union captured the Confederate's last major port in this significant Civil War battle.
What is the Battle of Mobile Bay?
300
The U.S. House of Representatives voted to impeach this president. He was ultimately acquitted, but lost the respect of the nation.
Who is Andrew Johnson?
300
This practice, where landowners gave workers shares of crops and supplies they needed to farm the land in return for labor, was common in the South after the Civil War.
What is sharecropping?
300
A woman named Mary Chestnut wrote in her diary about her feelings at the time President Lincoln was shot. This diary entry would be known as this type of source.
What is a primary source?
400
The 180,000 African American solders who served in the Union Army after being freed by the Emancipation Proclamation often faced this, meaning an unfair feeling of dislike for members of a certain racial or religous group.
What is prejudice?
400
On April 9, 1865, Confederate General Robert E. Lee signed the terms of surrender in this Virginia village.
What is Appomattox Court House.
400
Presidents Lincoln and Johnson, along with the U.S. Congress, each had plans for Reconstruction. It was this plan that aimed to punish the South for its involvement in the war.
What is Congress' Plan?
400
Segregation, or the practice of keeping blacks and whites separated, was created by this set of laws.
What are the Jim Crow laws?
400
While researching for a class project on the Civil War, you find a newspaper article written five years after the war. The article would be this type of source.
What is a secondary source?
500
This woman from Virginia became a famous spy for the Confederacy during the Civil War.
Who is Belle Boyd?
500
In this significant Civil War battle, a Union Army march from Atlanta to Savannah, GA, cutting a path of destruction 60 miles wide and 300 miles long and destroying homes, stores, crops and railroad tracks.
What is Sherman's March to Sea?
500
The act that made African Americans legal citizens of the United States, thus giving them the right to vote.
What is the 14th Amendment?
500
This former enslaved person worked to provide African Americans with more opportunities for education after Reconstruction.
Who is Booker T. Washington?
500
This Confederate Army commander served in the military for 32 years.