Events during the Civil War
Who was the Civil War between?
Union (North) and Confederacy (South)
What was the bloodiest single-day battle in U.S. history? This battle was won by the Union but led to the firing of Union General George McClellan because he did not pursue the Confederates as the Confederates retreated.
The Battle of Antietam
How was the south's economy impacted the Civil War
They remained the poorest region in the United States for a very long time. The south was devastated by the destruction of the war. Lost dominance in the world market of the cotton industry.
According to “Lincoln’s Second Inaugural Address” what did Lincoln want after the Civil War was over?
A fair and generous peace with the Confederates
What did the Republicans do to Andrew Johnson because Johnson was not enforcing Reconstruction legislation?
Impeached but not removed from office
Who won the Civil War
The Union
What famous court case involved the movement of slaves in free states
Dred Scott vs. Sanford
What is the drafting of citizens for military service that occurred during the Civil War?
Conscription
Where did Robert E. Lee surrender to Ulysses S. Grant, ending most of the fighting of the Civil War?
Appomattox Court House
What is the 13th Amendments to the Constitution?
13th-Abolished Slavery
Where were the first shots of the Civil War fired?
Fort Sumter
Identify two causes of the Civil War
Missouri Compromise, Compromise of 1850, Fugitive Slave Laws, Kansas Nebraska Act, Bloody Kansas, John Browns raid on Harpers Ferry
What was the major effect of the formation, fighting, and death of the soldiers Massachusetts 54th Infantry Regiment?
More African Americans were able to fight in the military
What happened to President Lincoln while he was watching a play at Ford’s Theatre?
Assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
What is a scalawag?
Scalawag-White southerner who joined the Republican Party after the Civil War
Who was the famous general that was one of the reasons the Union finally started winning the war?
Ulysses S. Grant
Which slaves did the Emancipation Proclamation free?
Only the slaves in the Confederacy
What 3-day battle was the turning point of the Civil War because the Confederacy would never be able to recover the number of soldiers who died there?
The Battle of Gettysburg
What was the period of rebuilding that followed the Civil War during which the defeated Confederate states were readmitted to the Union (1865-1877)?
Reconstruction
What were the two types of alternative farming that replaced the plantation system and were almost as bad as slavery because farmers remained in debt? What is the difference between these two types of farming?
Sharecropping and tenant farming
Who was the famous general of the Confederate military?
Robert E. Lee
What is a court order requiring authorities to bring a prisoner before the court so that the court can determine whether the prisoner is being held legally? This was suspended in both the North and the South during the Civil War.
Habeas corpus
What famous speech did Abraham Lincoln give at the dedication of a cemetery honoring the many soldiers that died in the 3-day battle that occurred there? According to this speech, why did Lincoln think that the Union needed to be preserved?
The Gettysburg Address-honor the dead, free the slaves, protect democracy
What was the major difference between Presidential and Congressional Reconstruction?
Presidential was lenient and Congressional was more radical by giving African Americans more rights and giving Confederates stricter punishments
What was the secret organization that used terrorist tactics in an attempt to restore white supremacy in the Southern states after the Civil War?
The Ku Klux Klan (KKK)