Vocabulary
Events
People
Miscellaneous
Terms
100
The period after the Civil War which focused on readmitting the South into the Union.

Reconstruction

100

First Shots of the Civil War

Fort Sumter

100

President of the United States (Union) during the Civil War

Abraham Lincoln

100

President who was impeached and almost removed from office for defiance of Congress during Reconstruction

Andrew Johnson

100

Order issued by Lincoln in 1863 that abolished slavery in the Southern States

Emancipation Proclamation
200

A Northerner who moved from the North to the South after the Civil War in search of money or power. 

Carpetbagger

200

Famous speech Abraham Lincoln gave after a major battle honoring those who died. 

Gettysburg Address

200

President of the Confederacy during the Civil War

Jefferson Davis

200

This group held control of Congress for most of Reconstruction and wanted to make the South pay for the Civil War and the assassination of Lincoln.

Radical Republicans. 

200

Made owning slaves illegal according to the Constitution, freed all slaves in the U.S.

13th Amendment

300

The country that the Southern states that seceded from the U.S. formed. 

Confederate States of America WHEEL OF FATE

300

This event changed the course of Reconstruction and devastated people in the North, happened in a theater 

Lincoln's Assassination. 

300

Main General of the Confederate Forces

Robert E. Lee

300

This siege was an example of total war by General Grant in the south, Union Victory

Battle of Vicksburg

300
Gave African Americans and everyone else born in America citizenship

14th Amendment

400

Charging an elected official with a crime while they are in office. 

Impeachment

400

Bloodiest battle of the war, lasted 3 days, turning point of the war for the Union. 

Battle of Gettysburg

400

Main General of the Union forces 

Ulysses S. Grant

400
These laws in the South said that you were not allowed to vote if your grandfather had not been allowed to vote in U.S. elections, a way to stop African Americans from voting. 

Grandfather Clauses

400

Gave African Americans and all males the right to vote regardless of "race, color or previous condition of servitude"

15th Amendment

500

A Southerner that supported the North during Reconstruction. 

Scalawag (IF NOBODY GETS IT: WHEEL OF DESTINY)

500

Event that marked the end of the Civil War after 5 years. 

Lee's Surrender to Grant at Appomattox Courthouse. 

500

Holiday celebrating the end of slavery

Juneteenth

500
The bloodiest single day of the Civil War, kept the Confederate Army from advancing further North. 

Battle of Antietam

500

Loyalty to one's own region or section instead of the country as a whole, a major cause of the civil war

Sectionalism

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