Civil War People
Terms
Civil War Events
Civil War Battles
The Law
Various
100
The President of the Confederacy
Who is Jefferson Davis
100
President Lincoln believed it was illegal for the Southern states to do this, which means leave the union.
Secede
100
These places near the battlefields used crude tools like bone saws, they had little or no anesthesia, and people often had to wait days for care.
Hospitals and treatment centers
100
The battle that started the war
Fort Sumter
100
This Amendment abolished Slavery
The 13th Amendment
100
Terrorist group formed in Tenn
The Ku Klux Klan
200
Turned down the job from the North Army to take full command of the South's Army
Who is General Robert E. Lee
200
Group of people opposed to slavery
Abolitionists
200
What did both General Grant and President Lincoln want for the country after the end of the war?
Healing; forgiveness; one united country again
200
This battle in Pennsylvania is considered the turning point of the war.
Gettysburg
200
Named after a minstrel show performer, the various laws segregated and humiliate black people
Jim Crow laws
200
This connected the East and West Coast by train.
The Transcontinental Railroad
300
He became President after Lincoln was killed
Andrew Johnson
300
This term refers to people who move into a region for political or financial gains, but they have no real ties to that area. They are opportunists.
Carpetbaggers
300
Lincoln's speech given November 19th, 1863 to memorialize fallen troops at a Battlefield.
What is the Gettysburg Address?
300
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War
Battle of Antietam
300
This Amendment made it so that black people were given the right to vote
15th Amendment
300
Built the telegram
Samuel Morse
400
Union General who later become President
Ulysses S. Grant
400
This term means people killed or wounded in battle
Casualties
400
The exact place where Lincoln was shot - not the city
Ford's Theatre
400
Where did Lee surrender to The North, ending the war
Appomattox Court House
400
If you are born in this country, regardless of your parents status, you are an American Citizen
14th Amendment
400
This was the first President impeached in the US
Andrew Johnson
500
Born in Brewer Maine, this General was the hero of Gettysburg, became the President of Bowdoin College, and Governor of Maine!!
Joshua Chamberlain
500
Laws made by Southern States to keep black people separated and in a lower class than whites
Jim Crow Laws or Black Codes
500
Where did the Civil War begin?
Fort Sumter
500
This battle in April of 1862 is sometimes referred to as the Battle of Pittsburgh Landing, but most people call it this
The Battle of Shiloh
500
This political party wanted to punish the South for their actions in The Civil War with strict rules.
Radical Republicans or Radical Reconstructionists
500
On our study guide, this phrase refers to the fact that Northerners wanted to make the South adopt equality, but the South resisted and avoided new laws.
"The Push and Pull Effect"
600
This abolitionist served as a spy for the Union
Harriet Tubman
600
People who work the land for a portion of the crops instead of pay
Sharecroppers
600
Name one of the Ironclad ships that battled each other
The Monitor and The Merrimack
600
Exactly how was John Wilkes Booth captured and killed?
He was trapped in a tobacco barn. It was lit on fire and he was shot.
600
What "crime" was deliberately done that would lead to the Plessy vs Ferguson Supreme Court Case.
He refused to ride in the blacks part of the train.
600
The first African American elected to Congress.
Hiram Reeves